Zipline Quotes

Sorry I’m late!” came a voice from the night, along with what Tern recognized as the sound of someone coming sliding down a zipline. “Your mother always wants to cuddle after!

Z is for zealotry: national pride like an infinite zipline, hyperdrive, the fastest way down.

When do I get one of those handlebars?

As sneakily addictive as a game of Pong (which was named, we're told, after the narrator's dad), this zany zip-line of a novel takes the piss out of the Asian-American 'good immigrant' story. Full of charming antiheroes making comically bad choices, the story dazzles us with its absurdity, which makes its eventual wisdom--about lineage, ethnicity, and the meaning of family--all the more wonderfully surprising.

Maybe we should stay another night," said Amelia... Rick nodded. "You're right. Sounds good to me." He then winked at her and said with a teasing glint in his eyes, "We can both sleep in this bed to save money." He then patted the space beside him. Amelia laughed and shook her head. "In your dreams!" Rick chuckled. "Yeah. In my dreams is right.

Rick smiled mischievously and said, "I think I'm going to learn 'Kisses sweeter than wine'. It's a fun one." Amelia laughed. "What it about?" "It's about a guy who falls in love with this girl who has kisses sweeter than wine. As you know, folk songs have a story to tell. Well, he asked her to marry him. At first she wouldn't accept his proposal, so he had to beg and plead with her." "Why didn't she want to marry him?" "I think she was worried about how it would change her life. She'd been on her own for quite some time and she had to get used to the idea." Amelia bit her lip and glanced down at her lap. With curiosity, she asked, "Did she finally accept his proposal?" "Yup. It just took her a while to realize he was the best thing that ever happened to her." Rick grinned. "She sort of reminds me of someone else I know.

A Piece of Heaven Just For You by Maisie Aletha Smikle Just for you I will climb To the mountain peak Just for you I will dive in the ocean deep For you My love The valley is never too wide I will tread plateaus and plains And ride camels on their reins Just for you My beloved Just for you I will swim and thread rivers and seas Paddle through the frosty snow and icy breeze Just for you My darling I will do triathlons around the circumference of the globe Trek rocky grounds And slippery slopes Just for you My darling I will zipline from the north pole to the south pole I will swing from the treetops And parachute from the backdrop Just for you My darling Just for you I will sing And cook a pot of stew Just for you my love I will climb the stairs of heaven To reach the clouds And bring back a piece of heaven Just for you my beloved

In the more immediate case, the charmed visitor's deliverance came when Nate lowered his face against the cold tile and Zero had ‒ with the surprising ease of a single determined tug against his zip-line tight leash ‒ toppled the chair to which he had been secured. It clattered loudly as he dragged it across the floor for several feet until the looped handle slipped off the now horizontal left upper knob of the back support; immediately after which the fixated feline joined his owner by inserting his much smaller head as far underneath the narrow gap at the cabinet's base as it would fit and his neck could stretch. He began to virtually mimic the rhythm of Nate's mop maneuver by alternately extending his left, then his right paw ‒ as Twitch likewise scurried from the kitchen side to the far corner ‒ sliding each in turn; alternating back and forth across the tile as if they were shortish, furry, clawed windshield wipers. For good measure, he repeatedly hissed and then growled menacingly in the direction of his quarry; finally sending the unwitting intruder scurrying once again; directly to the left of his pursuers, who ‒ despite being quite synchronized in their movements ‒ had been working at cross-purposes. During his hurried effort to return to his feet, Nate momentarily lost his balance and realized even as he righted himself, that this had provided the fleet-footed rodent all the time needed to evade his trap and bolt out the left crevice. It was in precisely this instant that his rat's luck really kicked in. Rather than escaping through any number of open spaces at the front or on either side and surely leading to a three way race that would have favored Zero heavily ‒ Twitch instead ran alongside the wall, where he became quickly immobilized between the back left cabinet leg and granite baseboard rising behind it. His twitching whiskers and wiggling nose had reached the side crevice that minutes earlier tantalized him with impending passage to the freedom of the open floor. However, by then a zealous greeting in the form of a crouched Zero awaited instead.

Sure, sure, I’m just telling about how Puerto Rico has a lot of lessons for us here in Ouray. Maria and Irma, oof. Those storms hit us, left us reeling, Benjamin. Reeling. Demolished our power grid, our agriculture, our economy. We had to learn how to rely on ourselves, on what we could build with our own hands—a zipline and bridge across a river, griddles and grills to cook meat for our people, our own antennas and signal boosters for phones and internet, even plans for low-carbon micro-grids to get us off the big one that failed us. There’s lessons there in that. People think an apocalypse is for the whole world. But for us, those storms? They were apocalypses.

Don't get it right, get it written. Lord knows you'll be doing revisions after revisions later.

Her grandmother used to say there were men the devil put on earth to test good women. Clara was tempted to ask the guy whether he'd just zip-lined in from hell. "Go away," she said instead. His smile was worth a thousand words, most of them dirty. His voice dipped. "How can I, when your eyes begged me to come over?

When girls like me, who are relatively smart and pretty, who have something to say, and who have their own points of view, spend every Friday night home alone watching reality TV, this is because all of the guys they might potentially have dated are out with Adventure Barbie. You know who she is—that girl with the perfectly tousled hair, long legs, and no fat anywhere because she doesn’t eat. She wears super-high heels, which she can walk in perfectly, but she also comes equipped with hiking boots. A guy who finds himself an A.B. is pleased to find out that she is equally at home zip-lining and fine dining. She will go with him to his kickboxing gym and impress all the guys there, and then she will go home and change into a little black dress and five-inch heels. A.B. does not exist in nature; she is her own creation. And no regular girl can match her. A regular girl’s face betrays her panic when she is asked to go rock climbing or cliff diving. A regular girl looks like a drowned rat after an afternoon of white-water rafting. But not Adventure Barbie.

Suddenly, I found myself running along the rooftop, leaping and falling. Falling until I caught the zip-line handle and then I was zooming, flying across the sky. I released the precious glass ball, not even glancing down to see it shatter.

I had chosen. This was my family now. Mr. Bradshaw unhooked the zip-line, and since there were raindrops on my face, no one could tell I that was crying.