#Great lines

[infinitysisters]

“There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.”

—Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

#great lines #great writing #herman melville #moby dick #great stories #western heritage of literature #great writers #19th century literature #wisdom

[booksandteaandstuff]

“Far from being a science, mapmaking was still an exercise of fancy, or religious devotion, or fear of the unknown.”

Marco Polo, The Travels of Marco Polo, Introduction - Milton Rugoff

https://bookshop.org/a/12010/9780140440577

#mapmaking #cartography #science #fancy #devotion #unknown #nonfiction #Marco Polo #The Travels of Marco Polo #book #books #bookish #bookworm #booklover #bibliophile #great quote #great quotes #great line #great lines #literary quote #literary quotes #booklr #bookblr #books and libraries #classics #travel #travel book #travel books #Milton Rugoff

[hillwoodhouse]

She has a stunning profile but the derrière of a bulldog.

#ferrari #812gts #bianco fuji #great lines #but i'm a hip man

[youshouldseemeinadeerstalker]

You indestructible little fucker!

#amazing #ofmd s2 #ofmd #ofmd s2 spoilers #great lines #those two i swear

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

“So what could’ve been conducted in a collegial atmosphere is now fucked into a cocked hat.”

This has got to be one of the more underrated lines of cinema history.

#ronin #1998 #films #stellan skarsgard #great lines #lmfao

[probablyscreamingintothevoid]

"Leave it to a child to shout what we've been whispering."

-R, The Burning World by Isaac Marion

this feels like such a raw line because it IS. kids only know how to communicate directly, if they are afraid they will ask you about exactly what it is they're afraid of. children often remind adults that it's okay to just communicate sometimes. there's not always a need to talk in circles and speak in riddles

#warm bodies series #the burning world #R #isaac marion #great lines #i love me some good writing #om nom nom #good soup

[foxyou-too]

https://gregmelander.com/post/149441918009/via-39764368767a0bb2de07ojpg

#geometric pattern #geometric #great lines #black&white #square

[2003toyotaprius]

[WEASELS] And those buccaneers drowned their sins in rum [MONKEY] The devil himself would have to call them scum

#muppets really didn't have to go that hard but they did #great lines #really shiver my timbers #muppet treasure island #finally getting to watch the best of the best #oops almost forgot #not mgs

[everyizuna]

#naruto #uchiha izuna #chapter 659 #back to mdr! #great lines

[ragedaisy]

reaching an audience sure was easier in highschool. Maybe I should just corner my coworkers during lunch break 🤔

#I have so much cake that needs eating #it is good cake #most are only 3 pages tops #character driven #funny #poignant #great lines #my OCs come with so much lore #and I'd like to think I have the writing skills to pull it off

[booksandteaandstuff]

There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.

Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings

https://bookshop.org/a/12010/9781590302484

#Stronger #richer #quicker #smarter #within #not without #miyamoto musashi #The book of five rings #nonfiction #book #books #bookish #bookworm #booklover #bibliophile #great quote #great quotes #great line #great lines #literary quote #literary quotes #booklr #bookblr #books and libraries #classics

[emberglowfox]

”discord is for gaming” “discord is for talking to classmates” discord is for popping open the general chat in a server at 3 in the morning to go “hey guys i just remembered i can recite all of psalm 24 king james version from memory. im gonna type it” and then doing that

#i was like. 80% accurate. fucked up like 2 lines and some words. but not bad it’s been a while #sparks speaks #college transition going great btw /unsure #containment breach #for some reason

[lady-corrine]

Thinking again about how Suzanne esentially subverted the "beloved famous man that is actually a horrible person in real life" with Finnick, who is the complete opposite of that.

Finnick has this whole image costructed around him by the people that abused him for years: the Capitol's darling, their golden boy, the sex symbol of Panem, the man that has countless lovers but leaves them constantly and doesn't look back etc. And you would expect, initially, to meet a man that retains at least a part of that persona in his day to day life. But Finnick doesn't, not even one bit.

You see instead a man that is deeply in love and completely devoted to the one woman he quite literally adores, a man that protects Mags, his old mentor and his mother figure, as much as he can, a man that wouldn't leave Johanna behind, a man that gathers whatever strenght he has left to speak publicly about the abuse inflicted upon him at the government's hands; the opposite of what the Capitol's media and reputation made him out to be.

#don't even get me started on beetee's line about how it's a miracle finnick is still with them giving all the abuse he suffered #that line is haunting #i just love him he's such a great character :(( #finnick odair #annie cresta #odesta #mags flanagan #johanna mason #the hunger games #thg

[andthebeanstalk]

Today my therapist introduced me to a concept surrounding disability that she called "hLep".

Which is when you - in this case, you are a disabled person - ask someone for help ("I can't drink almond milk so can you get me some whole milk?", or "Please call Donna and ask her to pick up the car for me."), and they say yes, and then they do something that is not what you asked for but is what they think you should have asked for ("I know you said you wanted whole, but I got you skim milk because it's better for you!", "I didn't want to ruin Donna's day by asking her that, so I spent your money on an expensive towing service!") And then if you get annoyed at them for ignoring what you actually asked for - and often it has already happened repeatedly - they get angry because they "were just helping you! You should be grateful!!"

And my therapist pointed out that this is not "help", it's "hLep".

Sure, it looks like help; it kind of sounds like help too; and if it was adjusted just a little bit, it could be help. But it's not help. It's hLep.

At its best, it is patronizing and makes a person feel unvalued and un-listened-to. Always, it reinforces the false idea that disabled people can't be trusted with our own care. And at its worst, it results in disabled people losing our freedom and control over our lives, and also being unable to actually access what we need to survive.

So please, when a disabled person asks you for help on something, don't be a hLeper, be a helper! In other words: they know better than you what they need, and the best way you can honor the trust they've put in you is to believe that!

Also, I want to be very clear that the "getting angry at a disabled person's attempts to point out harmful behavior" part of this makes the whole thing WAY worse. Like it'd be one thing if my roommate bought me some passive-aggressive skim milk, but then they heard what I had to say, and they apologized and did better in the future - our relationship could bounce back from that. But it is very much another thing to have a crying shouting match with someone who is furious at you for saying something they did was ableist. Like, Christ, Jessica, remind me to never ask for your support ever again! You make me feel like if I asked you to call 911, you'd order a pizza because you know I'll feel better once I eat something!!

Edit: crediting my therapist by name with her permission - this term was coined by Nahime Aguirre Mtanous!

Edit again: I made an optional follow-up to this post after seeing the responses. Might help somebody. CW for me frankly talking about how dangerous hLep really is.

#hlep #original #mental health #my sympathies and empathies to anyone who has to rely on this kind of hlep to get what they need. #the people in my life who most need to see this post are my family but even if they did I sincerely doubt they would internalize it #i've tried to break thru to them so many times it makes my head hurt. so i am focusing on boundaries and on finding other forms of support #and this thing i learned today helps me validate those boundaries. the example with the milk was from my therapist. #the example with the towing company was a real thing that happened with my parents a few months ago while I was age 28. 28! #a full adult age! it is so infantilizing as a disabled adult to seek assistance and support from ableist parents. #they were real mad i was mad tho. and the spoons i spent trying to explain it were only the latest in a long line of #huge family-related spoon expenditures. distance and the ability to enforce boundaries helps. haven't talked to sisters for literally the #longest period of my whole life. people really believe that if they love you and try to help you they can do no wrong. #and those people are NOT great allies to the chronically sick folks in their lives. #you can adore someone and still fuck up and hurt them so bad. will your pride refuse to accept what you've done and lash out instead? #or will you have courage and be kind? will you learn and grow? all of us have prejudices and practices we are not yet aware of. #no one is pure. but will you be kind? will you be a good friend? will you grow? i hope i grow. i hope i always make the choice to grow. #i hope with every year i age i get better and better at making people feel the opposite of how my family's ableism has made me feel #i will see them seen and hear them heard and smile at their smiles. make them feel smart and held and strong. #just like i do now but even better! i am always learning better ways to be kind so i don't see why i would stop

[the-one-who-lambs]

This is a super super gentle reminder not to put your favorite authors on a pedestal. We're real people living average lives and not trying to be influencers. We criticize ourselves enough and we don't want to be held to an invisible standard (we start to worry we fail to exceed our own selves) or compared to other writers (we are not competing) or tailor our craft to cater to a wider audience (the right people will find you).

#hannah's rambles #compliments are great!! #sensationalizing me is making me a little uncomfy. #got an ask that seemed pretty well intentioned but i couldn't tell for sure. #yall dont have to write as much as i do or interpret things the same way or think of my writing style as the ultimate finish line. #writers on tumblr

[aethersea]

honestly it was a red flag when bbc sherlock went “well obviously the word written in blood isn’t the german word for revenge, it’s clearly the beginning of the name ‘rachel’, what absolute idiot would fail to see that” when in the original novel it is, in fact, the german word for revenge, which sherlock points out gleefully to a roomful of policemen who all figure it’s the beginning of the name ‘rachel.’

and by red flag I mean it was a clear sign that the adaptation was trying to one-up the source material, instead of engaging with it with love.

#sherlock holmes #finx rambles #this kinda bugged me even when I first watched it and still thought it was a super cool show #and tbh it WAS super cool in a lot of ways #they had such dynamic and exciting editing #good pacing #cool character introductions #great snappy lines #but this was a small thing that rankled even then