#troll

Loki," I said. "Hey, Princess." He smiled dazedly as he looked up at me. "What's wrong?" "Nothing." I smiled and shook my head. "Not anymore." "What's this?" He took my hair and held it out so i could see. A curl near the front had gone completely silver. "I take a nap, and you go gray?" "You didn't take a nap." I laughed. "Don't you remember what happened?" He furrowed his brow, trying to remember, and understanding flashed in his eyes. "I remember..." Loki touched my face. "I remember that I love you." I bent down, kissing him full on the mouth, and he held me to him. ↗

— Amanda Hocking

#science-fiction #trilogy #trolls #love

only to people!' shouted Rincewind. He drew his sword and, with a smooth overarm throw, completely failed to hit the troll. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#rincewind #swords #trolls #humor

Love. It seemed impossible that she could love him, but she was so deep in him there was really nowhere to go but further in. So this is what love was. Uncontrollable. Consuming. But so irresistible you wanted to be consumed. ↗

— Dianna Hardy

#control #love #mary-and-gwain #meaning-of-love #uncontrollable

I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#being #chinese #controlled #feel #gradually

I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place. ↗

— Chuck Close

#controlled #disabilities #drove #faces #fact

The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself - well, I wouldn't say impossible but it should be approached with a degree of caution. ↗

— Ken MacLeod

#caution #complex #controlling #degree #engineering

The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled. ↗

— Ross Perot

#balanced #budget #controlled #debt #officials

Because I actually find the next take after they've controlled it a little bit and repressed the laughter is actually a really interesting take, because that's still going on underneath the surface. That struggle to maintain composure becomes part of the joy of the scene. ↗

— Jay Roach

#after #because #becomes #bit #composure

When the Republicans controlled the House from 1994 -2006, Democrats like Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Henry Waxman Charlie Rangel, John Conyers and Rahm Emanuel weren't saying we need to move right to win. They stuck to their philosophy. And they fought against Reagan and they fought against the Bushes. And eventually they did win. ↗

— Ed Rollins

#barney #bushes #charlie #controlled #democrats

The problem with the evangelical homeschool movement was not their desire to educate their children at home, or in private religious schools, but the evangelical impulse to "protect" children from ideas that might lead them to "question" and to keep them cloistered in what amounted to a series of one-family gated communities. Frank Schaeffer ↗

— Frank Schaeffer

#critical-thinking #evangelical #free-thought #homeschool #religious-right