#u

I have three step brothers and one step sister. It’s like a staircase, and I am the slinky. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#sibling-relationships #simile #simile

A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doesn't know Clark Kent is on board. ↗

— John Piper

#jesus #simile #simile

Lei era entrata in quella parte del cuore dove ci sono le cose più buone, quella simile a una credenza dei dolci dove c'è la Nutella, i biscotti, le merendine, la marmellata; quell'angolo di cuore dove quando uno ci entra, succeda quel che succeda, da lì non uscirà mai. Non c'entra l'amore. Ci sono persone che da quando le conosci non smetti mai di volergli bene. ↗

— Fabio Volo

#cuore #fabio #nutella #volo #simile

Lei, padre, ha conosciuto i tempi in cui le sorti dell'umanità erano ancora nelle mani di Dio. Ma io no, non ho conosciuto quei tempi, sono nato dopo, e mi sembrano lontani come un'era preistorica. Posso arrivare a rimpiangerli, ma che senso avrebbe? E come me, dopo di me, sono comparsi altri milioni di persone, in questo mondo che è cambiato così profondamente, che è diventato di colpo così precario, traballante. E lei non crede que alcune di queste persone, almeno alcune, non tutte, possano essere congenitamente un po' diverse, possano avere sviluppato qualcosa de profondamente simile a questo nuovo mondo, che prima di loro non era mai esistito? Non lo crede possibile? ↗

— Sandro Veronesi

#simile

As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#katniss-everdeen #self #suzanne-collins #katniss

Plutarch rushes to reassure me. "Oh, no, Katniss. Not your wedding. Finnick and Annie's. All you need to do is show up and pretend to be happy for them." "That's one of the few things I won't have to pretend, Plutarch," I tell him. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#finnick #katniss #mockingjay #plutarch #wedding

I felt like a car that had only been operated by one driver… a car its new prospective buyer was determined to take to the Daytona 500. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#sookie-stackhouse

I watch as the branches of the chestnut tree slowly darken and turn black against the sky. the wind drops. the leaves are still. the sun fades and dips beyond the square of the window. the clouds are lit up with gold in the middle; deep dark lines score their edges. I watch the color leave them, watch it leak out in pink and purple, until the whole sky is burning and bruised and finally black. I watch the night come, and the day end. I understand that im saying goodbye. not just to this day itself, but to the world outside. outside. I'm giving up. ↗

— Sharon Dogar

#the-sun-watches-the-sun

Bubba made a sound of disapproval "You're not supposed to be kissing on anybody else, Miss Sookie" he said "Bill said it was okay, but I don't like it. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#bubba #eric-northman #sookie-stackhouse #sookie-stackhouse

From the shadows, the young heir to the throne came forward, his expression far older than his seven years. Wrath, son of Wrath, was, like Tohrment, the spitting image of his sire, but there the comparison between the two pairs ended. The regent king was sacred, not just to his parents, but to the race. This small male was the future, the leader to come...evidence that in spite of the affronts committed by the Lessening Society, the vampires would survive. And he was fearless. Whereas many a wee one had shrunk back behind a parent when facing a single Brother, the young Wrath stood his own, staring up at the males before him as if he knew, regardless of his tender age, that he would command the strong backs and fighting arms of those before him. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#j-r-ward #lover-mine #wrath #age