#aught

I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship. ↗

— Vince Neil

#beast #beautiful #begged #cancer #cheated

Well, he can't be dumb, I mean, because he's been president for four years and he's president again, so you're going to get caught out if you're really bad, aren't you? Unless millions and millions of Americans are dumb. ↗

— John Newcombe

#bad #because #been #caught #dumb

Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing. ↗

— John Perkins

#caught #embarrassing #had #lot #roosevelt

Shared laughter is erotic too. ↗

— Marge Piercy

#shared #too

My dad was born poor, made a fortune during his life, and then died suddenly—murdered by his only son, leaving his vast estate to a daughter I didn’t know he had.
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— Jarod Kintz

#daughter #family #father #inherit #inheritance

Mother (fragment) ...You asked me if I would be sad when it happened and I am sad. But the iris I moved from your house now hold in the dusty dry fists of their roots green knives and forks as if waiting for dinner, as if spring were a feast. I thank you for that. Were it not for the way you taught me to look at the world, to see the life at play in everything, I would have to be lonely forever. ↗

— Ted Kooser

#mothers-and-daughters #nature #poetry #life

What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in the stars. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#fathers #moon #stars #sisters

Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality. ↗

— Stephen King

#laughter #laughter

Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#life #sorrow #wrapped-in-rainbows #life

To laugh continually is to never laugh at all. For it takes the periodic sound of sorrow from which to distinguish the sound of joy. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#joy #laugh #laughter #life #life-lessons