Martin Luther King said it was time to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of human civilization. I don't think anyone is calling Martin Luther King a New Age woo-woo.
Growing up in Beirut, I used to go to the souks with my mother to buy fabrics... I understood fashion at an early age, and my first designs were when I was five.
I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.
I love time with family and friends, but completely relish time on my own when I have no agenda to follow, no to-do's, just me and time alone.
we should lean into the pain, instead of running away from it.
My head felt like it was going to crack down the middle, like some demented dwarf was driving glass pins through my brain.
The Latter, I can tell, is added for my benefit. An assumption that the elderly cannot help but be impressed by the old fashioned.
Are you, monsieur, a man of your word?" "It really depends upon the word," Magnus said. "There are so many wonderful words...
He peered down at me. “Jesus Christ. You’re leaking.” If by “leaking” he meant “sobbing like a girl,” I guess so.
Sometimes the newly Marked go into shock. The good news is, if this happens to you, you are unlikely to notice, because you will be in shock.
To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only thing that lasts, that's worth working for, for fighting for...
Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.
I'm afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page.
She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero might possess.
...The more I learned the more I realized how very much one has to know before one is in-the-know at all.
I discovered that when one follows the artist's eye one sees unexpected treasures in so many seemingly ordinary scenes.
[Will Herondale] would say he knew a warlock who was a better friend, and more worth trusting, than many a nephilim warrior.
Coaxing drunken Shadowhunters into making fools of themselves was a favorite occupation among the Downworlders, and this performance had been a tremendous success.
[Magnus] reminded himself of his manners, and bowed. "Charmed," he said. "Or whatever effect would please you best, I'm sure.
When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right ones a fighting chance- Victoria Barron- dedicated attorney and protagonist of Misplaced
Ah, sir, that's just mean. She's not a Victoria's Secret model. but she's pretty in her way.
