#un

When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#inspirational #prince-charming #taylor-swift #funny

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope. ↗

— Barack Obama

#helping-others #hope #initiative #just-do-it #proactivity

The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#german #government #occupation #occupier #orders

Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding. ↗

— Stephen King

#guns #person

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#glittering-eyes #hidden #magic #secrets #unlikely-places

Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#running

Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink." "Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it." Exchange between Lady Astor and Winston Churchill— ↗

— Winston Churchill

#classic-insult #drunk #wife

You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers. "Real," I answer. "Because that's what you and I do, protect each other. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#katniss #peeta #games

I enjoyed the meetings, too. It was like having friends. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#luna-lovegood #friends

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#barbarism #between #civilization #country #decadence