"When a bookworm finally decides to leave the house, perhaps to explore some literary destination in one of her novels, she will be surprised to know that there is a volatile, often antagonistic force in the real world known as the weather."
Joyce Rachelle
Inspiration
Wives?' she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, 'None active,' as if wives were volcanoes.
John le Carré
Inspiration
The idea being that if I was so incredibly small, then I could do almost anything, because what impact would I have, really? What damage could be done, being so puny in the big scheme?
Rosecrans Baldwin
"As much as I don’t want it to be true, the reasons I don’t do something define me as a person even more so, perhaps, than the reasons I do something."
Dan Pearce
"It is not death that a man should fear he should fear never beginning to live."
Unknown
"Man is an end in himself."
Unknown
"We should not be careless toward the fulfillment of our calling."
Anonymous
"Five million people die unnecessarily each year because of illness related to lack of potable water. Half of them are children under the age of five. To bring it home, think about this: one child dies from lack of clean water every twelve seconds."
Thomas M. Kostigen
Inspiration
A phase of my life was closing to-night, anew one opening to-morrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was beingaccomplished.
Charlotte Brontë
Saga Valsalan
by fabian
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Inspiration
When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be prod.
Author
"I always wanted to be a blonde, and it was really cool to do that for a while."
Alexandra Daddario
Inspiration
The only reason people hold onto memories is because memories are the only things that don't change, even when everyone else does.
Author
Inspiration
Gansey had always felt as if there were two of him: the Gansey who was in control, able to handle any situation, able to talk to anyone, and then, the other, more fragile Gansey, strung out and unsure, embarrassingly earnest, driven by naive longing.
Author
"Happy to say you passed the sobriety test. Sad to say you failed the asshole test."
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