#wing

You are too alive to bury yourself at this age, Jade. Don't do it - it won't work anyway. ↗

— Lada Ray

#life-lessons #age

I'm sorry you don't like coming back here," her mother often said, to cap whatever petty dust-up they'd had. How could Emily explain: it wasn't her mother or Kersey she'd disowned, but her earlier self, that strange, ungrateful girl who strove to be first at everything and threw tantrums when she failed. ↗

— Stewart O'Nan

#arguments #coming-home #daughters #family #fights

Is it possible that we never feel grown-up because, as our capabilities increased with age, so increased our responsibilities? ↗

— R.C. Sproul Jr.

#growing #maturity #age

So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#eventually #family #finding #give #good

In Chicago, you can’t swing a cat without hitting an Irish pub (and angering the cat), but McAnally’s place stands out from the crowd. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#swinging-a-cat #anger

Jess couldn't stop spitting out words, because they were words like blades to hurt, and if she swallowed them, she'd be scraped hollow. ↗

— Helen Oyeyemi

#swallowing #words #anger

Throughout my career, when I was finished with the drawing for one film I would go up to the story department and help develop sequences. Sometimes these were for scenes that I would animate later on. ↗

— Marc Davis

#career #department #develop #drawing #film

A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods. ↗

— Robert Henri

#does #ever #ground #growing #methods

Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings. ↗

— Steve Yzerman

#detroit #few #following #history #nhl

It was amazing what an hour with her sketchpad could do for her mood. She was sure that the lines she drew with her black marker were going to save her years of worry lines in the future. ↗

— Victoria Kahler

#creativity-work #drawing #sketching #art