#at

For the first time in her life she could see perfectly well how a person arrived on that flight path: needing an alternative to the present so badly, the only doorway was a high window. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#life

Life is a predicament which precedes death. ↗

— Henry James

#life #death

Like a tongue on frozen steel, like flesh in flame — ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death

Do you even know what hammerd means?" I asked. "Something to do with drinking your American beer out of a hole in the side of a can?" Dave reached over and slapped him on the shin. "Close enough. ↗

— Jennifer Rardin

#humor #death

How easy to be a bird or an animal, living from day to day, unaware you're alive, unaware that one day you will die. ↗

— Rachel Ward

#life #living #death

i love the name of honor, more than i fear death ↗

— Julius Caesar

#death

Joe" I said. "It's Stephanie." "Does this involve death?" "Not yet." "Does this involve sex?" "Not yet." "I can't imagine why else you'd be calling me. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#stephanie #death

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#death

If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody. ↗

— James Baldwin

#love #death

Committing suicide so as not to be murdered is the worst reason I've ever heard of to die. ↗

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

#death