#aged

Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea? ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#choice #tea #choice

Yet we met; and fate bound us together at the alter,and I never spoke of passion nor thought of love. She, however shunned society, and, attaching herself to me alone rendered me happy. It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#dreams

A darkness different from Ember's, but just as frightening... ↗

— Jeanne DuPrau

#adventure #drama #expedition #tragedy #drama

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic. ↗

— Irvin D. Yalom

#tragedy #perspective

Its not over, until the Lord says its over. ↗

— T.D. Jakes

#judgement-day #judgement

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#insanity #parents #tragedy #faith

Why do they have to move in packs?" Harry asked Ron as a dozen or so girls walked past them, sniggering and staring at Harry. "How're you supposed to get one on their own to ask them?" "Lasso one?" Ron suggested. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#teenagers

When God issues a call to us, it is always a holy call. The vocation of dying is a sacred vocation. To understand that is one of the most important lessons a Christian can ever learn. When the summons comes, we can respond in many ways. We can become angry, bitter or terrified. But if we see it as a call from God and not a threat from Satan, we are far more prepared to cope with its difficulties. ↗

— R.C. Sproul

#fear #gospel #providence #tragedy #death

The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love. ↗

— Kristina McMorris

#grief #loss #mourning #tragedy #war

Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit. Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama in modern life, there is only dramatization, that there is no tragedy, there is only unexplained misfortune, debases us. It denies what we know to be true. In denying what we know, we are as a nation which cannot remember its dreams--like an unhappy person who cannot remember his dreams and so denies that he does dream, and denies that there are such things as dreams. ↗

— David Mamet

#real_life #tragedy #dreams