#v

To Sara's practised eye, this latest episode looked something like a broken heart, even if she'd never seen the look on him before. Or even imagined it happening. She wondered if he'd noticed yet. ↗

— Manna Francis

#love #toreth #imagination

He had never imagined so clearly the consequences of mailing a letter--the impossibility of retrieving it from the iron mouth of of the box; the inevitability if its steady progress through the postal system; the passing from bag to bag and postman to postman until a lone man in a van pulls up to the door and pushes a small pile through the letterbox. It seemed suddenly horrible that one's words could not be taken back, one's thoughts allowed none of the remediation of speaking face to face. ↗

— Helen Simonson

#letters #imagination

My love for you is elemental and immutable, and it will sustain me until I die. ↗

— Sharon Shinn

#love

But a shift has occurred since I stepped up to take Prim’s place, and now it seems I have become someone pre- cious. At first one, then another, then almost every member of the crowd touches the three middle fingers of their left hand to their lips and holds it out to me. It is an old and rarely used gesture of our district, occasionally seen at funerals. It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#love

My mind argued with itself about whether to adhere to proper etiquette or whether to fling aside all modesty and throw my arms around him. My feet chose the latter before my mind had a chance to settle it. I flew off the stool and landed in his embrace. Freezing rain drenched his coat and shirt. His arms wrapped around me tighter, and there was nothing so right as being pressed against Nathaniel Strider. ↗

— Tess Oliver

#werewolves #young-adult #werewolves

No, Kramisha, he's not black. He's a killer bird with evil for his Daddy. ↗

— P.C. Cast

#house-of-night #kramisha #stevie-ray #young-adult-fiction #young-adult

Oh, for the love of backwoods babies everywhere -Katy ↗

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

#love

He shook his head in mock sympathy. "I tell you, Sage. Sometimes I think I am the one who needs to take out the restraining order on you. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#indigo-spell #sydney-sage #adrian-ivashkov

A brick represents all the evil in the world. We should start a War on Bricks. And why not? It’s more tangible, yet just as nonsensical, as the War on Terror.
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #evil #tangible #war

The glory of science is to imagine more than we can prove. ↗

— Freeman John Dyson

#immanuel-velikovsky #jim-carter #lord-kelvin #margaret-wertheim #physics-on-the-fringe