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I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#jokes #like #look #making #mind

Ally." Peeta says the words slowly, tasting it. "Friend. Lover. Victor. Enemy. Fiancee. Target. Mutt. Neighbor. Hunter. Tribute. Ally. I'll add it to the list of words I use to try to figure you out. The problem is, I can't tell what's real anymore, and what's made up. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#words

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#coming #cut #flowers #keep #spring

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#disappointed #expects #never #nothing #shall

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#reading #we-are-what-we-eat #we-are-what-we-read #you-are-what-you-eat #you-are-what-you-read

What the hell?" I asked. Is this daring escape being sponsored by Honda? ↗

— Richelle Mead

#sacrifice

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#words

When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it. ↗

— Wisława Szymborska

#silence #words

This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#words

And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#secrets #sharing-secrets #words