Why do we insist on being the carpenters of our own crosses?
John ZunskiTags: cemetery-street fictional-character
What good would learning be if we concentrated on what we already knew? It is only by learning those things that come to us with difficulty that we truly gain wisdom.
Kate KlimoTags: fictional-character honus
Living in that castle was like being condemned to Hell before I’d even had the opportunity to sin.
Kristen ReedTags: fantasy fiction heroine fictional-character the-kings-council
Friendship is just love that has yet to sprout wings and take flight.
Kristen ReedTags: friendship love romance fantasy fiction fantasy-fiction fictional-character
She was so plain. Would it kill you to wear skirts more, he had said to her. Would it really hurt you? He was thinking of how he would like to see her when she was alone with him. He knew she could dress when she had to, but this was what he was saying. He was saying something about their private life. He was saying something about his needs as a man.
He imagines America’s anger at this. It would be the women, mainly. Their eager faces had watched: Amelia boarding the plane for her first transatlantic flight; Amelia waving to the crowd in the ticker tape parade; Amelia leaving luncheons and concert halls. Some had been housewives and some, girls with dreams of loops and spins and dives, of hugging the curvature of the earth through a thin sheet of aluminum.
-- After Amelia
Tags: short-stories fictional fictional-character
Pure, perfect sorrow is as impossible as pure and perfect joy.
Leo TolstoyTags: fictional-character
Angry people scared me. Angry people who thought I was in charge scared me even more.
Amanda HammTags: introverts christian-romance fictional-character
He's a real nowhere man,
Sitting in his Nowhere Land,
Making all his nowhere plans
for nobody.
Doesn't have a point of view,
Knows not where he's going to,
Isn't he a bit like you and me?
Tags: existence music philosophy dream nothingness music-lyrics fictional-character lack-of-motivation
What's a horse doing on a spaceship"
"What's pre-revolutionary France doing on a spaceship? Mickey, get a little perspective!"
Dr. Who "The Girl In The Fireplace
Tags: fantasy fictional-character dr-who
No matter how much restitution she paid with every word and deed, her blood-stained hands could never really be clean, even if no one else knew they were dirty.
Stacy Hawkins AdamsTags: inspirational novel fictional-character
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