To the left, just past the painting, on the other side of the hall, is the bathroom, the sort of open door that if cameras found it as they passed through the house in a horror movie would trigger a blast of synthesizers (John Darnielle, Wolf in White Van)
Their glee was greater glee in the fact that he was a good man, than he was any off-the-street kind of a guy who did this sort of thing without needing temptation…They delighted in the pain in the pain this would cause his wife and family. (John Pontius, Visions of Glory: One Man’s Astonishing Account of the Last Days)
She looked up at him and her face was pale and austere in the uplight and her eyes lost in their darkly shadowed hollows save only for the glint of them and he could see her throat move in the light and he saw in her face and in her figure something he’d not seen before and the name of that thing was sorrow (Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses)
Love people who hate you and their hatred won’t get grounds to gain roots (Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders’ Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts)
But when you’re concerned that the miserable, boring wasteland in front of you might stretch all the way into forever, not knowing feels strangely hope-like (Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened)
Do not judge others, without first judging yourself. There is no strength without knowing thyself. ☥ – Luis Marques
A story that has nothing but action and plot is a pretty poor affair – and some great stories have neither..
The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them. (David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility)
Beauty is something I cannot seem to take as a given. It seems to lie too disadvantageously in the eyes of beholders. (Rosalyn D’Mello)
Many sheep but one Shepherd. (Lailah Gifty Akita)