#zed

If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#deeds #future #guidance #immediately #open

Because whipping an atlas at Jackson's head while he was flirt-touching that Frankie girl in geography would have been very satisfying. And beating him with the Eiffel Tower snowglobe while he kissed Cleo in French would have been tres cathartic. But she hadn't. Instead she'd been egg-like: a hard shell on the outside, and a runny mess on the inside. ↗

— Lisi Harrison

#crush #jealousy #repressing-emotions #school #jealousy

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#self-actualization #unrealized-potential #life

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#creative-writing #life #meaningless #meaninglessness #modern-life

As with most things in life, Lady Maccon preferred the civilized exterior to the dark underbelly (with the exception of pork products, of course.) ↗

— Gail Carriger

#civilized #life

On his own okay, Bush has authorized eavesdropping on as many as a thousand people over the past three years, with some of those intercepts being purely domestic, the New York Times reported. ↗

— Margaret Carlson

#being #bush #domestic #eavesdropping #his

I'm crazy, Zed.' There, I'd admitted it. 'Uh-huh. And I'm crazy too -about you. ↗

— Joss Stirling

#love #sky #zed #love

You say that you hope I will be recognized as the best novelist of my generation. I want you to know now and know completely that that would mean to me absolutely nothing. ↗

— Jean Stafford

#absolutely nothing #best #completely #generation #hope

... I looked through the car's rear window for a final wave, and it felt like someone had invaded my chest and squeezed all the juice out of my heart until it was a tiny dry sponge. ↗

— Karen Tayleur

#heart #sponge #squeeze-dry #squeezed #wave

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field? ↗

— Jim Bouton

#baseball #baseball players #field #football #football players