#utter

Do you know, it's really hard to be a parent. I blame it on Santa Claus. You spend so long making sure your kid doesn't know he's fake that you can't tell when you're supposed to stop." "Mom, I found you and Calla wrapping my presents when I was, like, six." "It was a metaphor, Blue." "A metaphor's supposed to clarify by providing an example. That didn't clarify." "Do you know what I mean or not?" "What you mean is that you're sorry you didn't tell me about Butternut." Maura glowered at the door as if Calla stood behind it. "I wish you wouldn't call him that." "If you'd been the one to tell me about him, then I wouldn't be using what Calla told me." "Fair enough. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#butternut #lol #maura #raven-boys #santa-claus

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin. ↗

— Aeschylus

#free #free will #happiness #his #just

A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house. ↗

— Aeschylus

#god #guilt #house #implants #mortal

I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#being #being in love #butterflies #effect #feeling

On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#clutter #fussy #i #i think #much

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#awful #between #cold #disappears #friendship

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#most #new #new word #people #step

Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt, pepper or butter; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#beef #boiled #butter #choke #consumed

There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#did #eighteen #father #first #himself

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#extinguished #heart #keeps #minds #moderation