#ali

...larger than life...I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life? ↗

— Nicole Krauss

#life

IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#fears #reality-of-life #life

Perhaps my life is nothing but an image of this kind; perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I simply should recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten. ↗

— André Breton

#surrealism #life

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#enjoy #figured #finally #i #only

Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#ignorance #life #reality #suffering #life

The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#spirituality #life

Anymore, no one's mind is their own. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#life #modernity #originality #life

The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#life

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#society #life

But a slow, deeply satisfied smile came over him, and his breath quickened. 'So softly it starts,' he whispered. 'Foolishly clever and with an unsurvivable trust. It just saved your miserable life, that questionable show of thought, my itchy-witch.' Al’s smile shifted, becoming lighter. 'And now you will live to possibly regret it. ↗

— Kim Harrison

#demons #fiction #rachel-morgan #supernatural #life