“I searched my stomach for that tight feeling, the sensation of waiting for the other shoe to drop. I could find it, if I tried hard enough, but for once, I didn’t want to. This moment felt worth whatever pain it might bring later, and I tried to repeat that to myself until I was sure I’d be able to remember it if I needed to.”
Source: Beach Read
“You're barely older than me.'
'Than I,' he corrected me with a little smile.”
Source: The Witch Is Back (Underworld, #4)
“Sonnet of Grammar
Grammar, Oh Grammar,
Whatever you are,
Go away and bother,
The intellectual scholar.
I ain't no intellectual,
Nor am I a scholar,
So bother me not,
With your snobbish affair.
My words come from the soil,
My structure is born on the street.
I didn't even graduate college,
What do I know about literary creed!
Time has come for me to put you in place.
Be an aid to discourse, not an uptight nutcase!”
Source: Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
“It was for being independent and strong-minded.”
Source: Run Like a Girl 365 Days a Year: A Practical, Personal, Inspirational Guide for Women Athletes
“As the old saying goes: With great power comes the total fuckin' certainty that you're gonna turn into a cunt.”
Source: The Boys, Volume 9: The Big Ride
“There is no point in having power unless you use it to make the world a better place than the one you came into.”
Source: The Tidal Helm
“We now concern ourselves with a labor less spectacular but nevertheless not unrewarding: that of making the terrain for these majestic moral edifices level and firm enough to be built upon; for under this ground there are all sorts of passageways, such as moles might have dug, left over from reason's vain but confident treasure hunting, that make every building insecure. (A319/B377)”
Source: Critique of pure reason
“The moles came bearing their lamps and then the most ancient and magical creature that ever danced beneath the moon was lost in darkness once more.”
Source: The Oaken Throne
“Don't read everything on the internet as true, as it might not be.”
“Since you’re obviously in need of something to do, instead of shouting at me through this whole drill, isn’t there some tree you could fell with your bare hands, or a boulder somewhere that needs tossing?”
Source: The Thing About Love