#death

They took form in a bedroom, Khloe realized with a scowl. He noticed and gave her a sideways grin. Arrogant ass. Laugh it up, demon. ↗

— Lia Davis

#demi-god #demon #magic #the-divinities-series #witch

The first time I met death, it was at a ball and we danced a waltz. ↗

— Charlotte Featherstone

#isabella-s-imagination #seduction-and-scandal #death

Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come ↗

— William Shakespeare

#fate #death

Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death #j-k-rowling #the-casual-vacancy #death

She said to embrace each change as if it were a small death. ↗

— Suzanne Morrison

#death #change

Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas. ↗

— José Saramago

#death

Just when it seemed my mother couldn’t bear one more needle, one more insane orange pill, my sister, in silence, stood at the end of the bed and slowly rubbed her feet, which were scratchy with hard, yellow skin, and dirt cramped beneath the broken nails, which changed nothing in time except the way my mother was lost in it for a while as if with a kind of relief that doesn’t relieve. And then, with her eyes closed, my mother said the one or two words the living have for gratefulness, which is a kind of forgetting, with a sense of what it means to be alive long enough to love someone. Thank you, she said. As for me, I didn’t care how her voice suddenly seemed low and kind, or what failures and triumphs of the body and spirit brought her to that point— just that it sounded like hope, stupid hope. ↗

— Jason Shinder

#hope #life #love #change

When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#marriage #change

When you're young your reality is accepted by most. When you're older, your reality changes and that seems to upset most people. ↗

— Solange nicole

#life-and-living #memories #change

Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#death #maturity #wisdom #death