#boo

I am hunted by humans ↗

— Markus Zusak

#markus-zusak #the-book-thief #death

I have also figured out that for many people death is a difficult subject, not at all as simple as it is for me. ↗

— Maija Haavisto

#philosophical #taboo #death

Mrs Darley, I noticed, always had her corn dolly amidst an arrangement of cornflowers and poppies (albeit they were artificial!). The corn, I was to later understand, represented the God, the red poppies his sacrificial blood and the blue cornflowers his death and this is something I still adhere to today. ↗

— Carole Carlton

#carole-carlton #corn-doll #corn-dolls #corn-dolly #cornflower

Using Facebook is like taking a Dyson to your spare time. ↗

— Gemini Adams

#humor-books #humor-quotes #technology #diet

One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic."- Joseph Stalin ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#death

He said that the principal function of music was to organize the details into harmonies that were intended to make us forget that there was randomness all around us. The same, he said, could be said for great books. ↗

— Seldon Edwards

#music #randomness #music

He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people... I got the feeling that Julián was living in the past, locked in his memories. Julián lived within himself, for his books and inside them - a comfortable prison of his own design." "You say this as if you envied him." "There are worse prisons than words. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#escape #literature #pain #prison #reading

I collect new books the way my friends collect designer handbags. Sometimes, I just like to know I have them and actually reading them is beside the point. Not that I don't eventually end up reading them. I do. But the mere act of buying them makes me happy. ↗

— Jennifer Kaufman

#handbags #purses #reading #design

The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#kill #only #threatens #worth #writing

How long it takes to write a book depends on its length. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#depends #how #length #long #takes