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I think I've just lost five pounds in fear sweat." Peabody mopped at her face. "Now I want a cannoli. I don't know why." With a laugh, Roarke shifted to grin at her. "I'll buy you a dozen, precious." "Cannolis, for God's sake. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#in-death-series #jd-robb #peabody #roarke #death

Sigh like the wind--open your arms, your chest, your heart--and all creatures will hum to you. ↗

— Penelope Smith

#inspirational #positive #communication

This time, Fusako was able to express herself with fluency and candor. The bold letters she had been writing week after week had granted her an unexpected new freedom. ↗

— Yukio Mishima

#dating #letter-writing #letters #love #relationships

Mark Spitz had met plenty of the divine-retribution folks over the months. This was their moment; they were umbrella salesmen standing outside a subway entrance in a downpour. The human race deserved the plague, we brought it on ourselves for poisoning the planet, for the Death of God, the calculated brutalities of the global economic system, for driving primordial species to extinction: the entire collapse of values as evidenced by everything from nuclear fission to reality television to alternate side of the street parking. Mark Spitz could only endure these harangues for a minute or two before he split. It was boring.The plague was the plague. You were wearing galoshes, or you weren't. ↗

— Colson Whitehead

#blame #devine-retribution #zombies #death

The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing. ↗

— Ronnie Barker

#double #double meaning #joke #marvelous #marvelous thing

...being able to listen to unrepeatable secrets, wishes, and desires wasn't as wonderful as it seemed...being aware of what other people felt at every moment would come to cause him a lot of headaches, and huge disappointments in love. ↗

— Laura Esquivel

#love #thoughts #communication

No matter how much and how often - 'things' will never compensate for loss or absence...no matter how guilty a parent feels. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#death

Love is God’s medicine.” ~ Amunhotep El Bey ↗

— Amunhotep El Bey

#love #love-quotations #motivational-quotations #quote #quotes

We live by faith and not by sight. ↗

— Anonymous

#live #sight #faith

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

#creeds #doubt #faith #half #honest