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Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#literature #reading #life

Only after disaster can we be resurrected. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#life #loss #resurrection #life

A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that you need to know everything about him. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#sugar-daddy #life

Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#insight #often #outsiders #quite

It is not true that 'we have only one life to live'; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. ↗

— S.I. Hayakawa

#life

I walked down the hall and saw that [she] was sitting on the floor next to a chair. This is always a bad sign. It's a slippery slope, and it's best just to sit in chairs, to eat when hungry, to sleep and rise and work. But we have all been there. Chairs are for people, and you're not sure if you are one. ↗

— Miranda July

#sad #life

For all those who longed to find a best friend and found it in themselves ↗

— Sandra Kring

#self-sufficiency #self-worth #self-worth

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

Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#life #pain #life

I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose ↗

— John Green

#life #risks #life