#urge

She tries to turn too soon, and the ladder smacks into Fernando's shoulder. "Oh! Sorry, Nando." The jolt knocks his glasses askew. He smiles at Christina and takes the glasses off, shoving them into his pocket. "Nando?" I say to him. "I thought the Erudite didn't like nicknames?" "When a pretty girl calls you by a nickname," he says, "it is only logical to respond to it. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#logic

I'm standing in a slaughterhouse where the cattle are begging to become hamburgers. I have a right to be jumpy. ↗

— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#comedy #hamburgers #shattered-mirror #comedy

Surgeons can cut out everything except cause. ↗

— Herbert M. Shelton

#healing #health #medicine #surgery #medicine

He slides his hand over my cheek, one finger anchored behind my ear. Then he tilts his head down and kisses me, sending a warm ache through my body. I wrap my hands around his arm, holding him there as long as I can. When he touches me, the hollowed-out feeling in my chest and stomach is not as noticeable. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#four #insurgent #tobias #tris #body

Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself, be sure of that! ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#christian #evangelism #share #witness #wit

Which means that in order to defeat her, I have to think of a way to defeat myself. And how can I be a better fighter than myself, if she knows the same strategies I know, and is exactly as resourceful and clever as I am? ↗

— Veronica Roth

#strategy

I do not preach doubtingly, for I do not live doubtingly. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#faith #religion #spurgeon #faith

I can 100 percent tell you that I have not gone under the surgeon's knife or had a facelift. ↗

— Shane Warne

#gone #had #i #i can #knife

I had some friends that tried it down there, and I went to a couple of open mics, and I just kind of got this... this sick urge to try it instead of just watching it. ↗

— Todd Barry

#down #friends #got #had #i

I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#forward #good #hard #i #i think