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Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought. ↗

— Stephen King

#eddie #fear #grownups #horror #it

I'm off for two weeks, so until I get back, take the characters in this tweet and parcel them out one per day. Use this Q wisely. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#humour #twitter #twitter

Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#twitter #twitter

Its like a sort of internet Ren Fair. Its like Dungeons & Dragons but for cool people who have got friends. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#popularity #twitter #twitter

Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too. ↗

— Rachel Grady

#twitter

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#form #history #never #stories #taught

We tell ourselves stories in order to live. ↗

— Joan Didion

#storytelling #storytelling

On the girl’s brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and moons on your dress? I thought that would be pretty too, and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars a s beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, ‘I survived’. In a few breaths’ time I will speak some sad words to you. But you must hear them as we have agreed to see scars now. Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means the storyteller is alive. The next thing you know, something fine will happen to her, something marvellous, and then she will turn round and smile. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#scars #survival #beauty

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#love #pain #philosophical #equality

People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#storytelling #storytelling