#y

Any pub will do?” “McPherson’s, I think. One with music that will alter my life forever, give me eternal happiness, and make me see God. You know. One like that.” “So you need the magical sound of Ireland and some information about an Abbeyglen native. Francine”—Beckett’s eyes danced in the streaming sunlight—“I’m about to solve your every problem.” Beckett stood up and gave my hair a light tug. “Prepare to worship and adore me. ↗

— Jenny B. Jones

#finley #life

Snaketail what art thou doing?" called Voldemort. Then . . . he started coming! We could hear his high heels clacking to us. So we got on our broomsticks and we flew to Hogwarts. We went to my room. Vampire went away. There I started crying. ↗

— Tara Gilesbie

#funny #my-immortal #art

That's totally their interpreter," a girl with a lip ring informs us. "Even though they totally record their music in English, they totally speak in Inuktitut. Totally. ↗

— Libba Bray

#music

No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities. ↗

— Ry Cooder

#murder-mystery #music #music

But if you close your eyes,does it almost feel like nothing changed at all? ↗

— Bastille Pompeii

#eyes #music #change

I come from the ocean with songs of the sea No lesson for learning, just play upon me Now go make your music in lands near and far Orion protects you wherever you are ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#music

...your tranquil yes to the changing over into the formless void of the unlimited. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#the-void #timelessness #transformation #change

Cause what the hell is wrong with expressing yourself, trying to be me? ↗

— Elton John

#billy-elliot #musicals #music

Then the woman in the bed sat up and looked about her with wild eyes; and the oldest of the old men said: 'Lady, we have come to write down the names of the immortals,’ and at his words a look of great joy came into her face. Presently she, began to speak slowly, and yet eagerly, as though she knew she had but a little while to live, and, in English, with the accent of their own country; and she told them the secret names of the immortals of many lands, and of the colours, and odours, and weapons, and instruments of music and instruments of handicraft they held dearest; but most about the immortals of Ireland and of their love for the cauldron, and the whetstone, and the sword, and the spear, and the hills of the Shee, and the horns of the moon, and the Grey Wind, and the Yellow Wind, and the Black Wind, and the Red Wind. ("The Adoration of the Magi") ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#ireland #mythology #love

Morality is totally God’s standard, and his standards and conditions are revealed to us through his written word, the Scriptures (The Bible). ↗

— Reid A. Ashbaucher

#nature-of-god #nature-of-man #philosophy-of-religion #reid-ashbaucher #change