#ang

There,” she said softly. “Now he could be sleeping. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#dobby #hermione-granger #death

I wonder how you say goodbye to someone forever? ↗

— Ann M. Martin

#goodbye #goodbye

Everybody has an angel hiding inside. When you die, your angel comes out. You can die, but not your angel. Your angel never dies. ↗

— Jerry Spinelli

#death #milkweed #warsaw #death

And along with indifference to space, there was an even more complete indifference to time. "There seems to be plenty of it", was all I would answer when the investigator asked me to say what I felt about time. Plenty of it, but exactly how much was entirely irrelevant. I could, of course, have looked at my watch but my watch I knew was in another universe. My actual experience had been, was still, of an indefinite duration. Or alternatively, of a perpetual present made up of one continually changing apocalypse. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#present-moment #time #change

In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience. ↗

— Nancy Mairs

#gender #language #experience

Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe when it dies? ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#lightning #nature #rain #thunder #wind

Spread the gospel that the Marine Corps is a force that has changed. We're not in 1942 anymore. ↗

— James F. Amos

#changed #corps #force #gospel #marine

The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#stephen-r-covey #change

Life doesn't exist inside language: too bad for me. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#life

The only disadvantage in surviving a dangerous experience lies in the fact that your story of it tends to be anticlimactic. You can never carry on right through the point where whatever it is that threatens your life actually takes it -- and get anybody to believe you. The world is full of sceptics. ↗

— Beryl Markham

#storytelling #experience