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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#certainty #life #life

Hades raised an eyebrow. When he sat forward in his throne, shadowy faces appeared in the folds of his black robes, faces of torment,as if the garment was stitched of trapped souls from the Fields of Punishment, trying to get out. The ADHD part of me wondered, off-task, whether the rest of his clothes were made the same way. What horrible things would you have to do in your life to get woven into Hades' underwear? ↗

— Rick Riordan

#percy-jackson #life

We could do it, you know." "What?" "Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#love #survival #ya #young-adult #life

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. ↗

— Harper Lee

#does #feared #i #lose #love

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal! ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#reading #love

They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#love #missing #sadness #love

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#power-of-words #reading #imagination

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#bread #difficult #hunger #love is #more

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair. ↗

— David Mitchell

#love #reading #love

He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#love #sad #love