#death

Moreover, grandmothers of students who aren't doing so well in class are at even higher risk - students who are failing are fifty times more likely to lose a grandmother compared with non-failing students. In a paper exploring this sad connection, Adam speculates that the phenomenon is due to intrafamilial dynamics, which is to say, students' grandmothers care so much about their grandchildren that they worry themselves to death over the outcome of exams. ↗

— Dan Ariely

#dishonesty #funny #lying #death

With the minivan in the air, rolling counterclockwise, the engine racing, Laurie screaming -- a fraction of a second, that's all -- Jacob would have thought of me -- who had held him, my own baby, looked down into his eyes -- and he would have understood I loved him, no matter what, to the very end -- as he saw the concrete wall flying forward to meet him. ↗

— William Landay

#jacob #love #murder #suicide #tears

خوفي من الموت في الاساس بيتلخص في اني مش بحب اجرب حاجة جديدة ↗

— احمد عطا - Ahmed Ata

#fear #الموت #خوف #death

That's what people do when they find a special place that wild and full of life, they trample it to death. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#wild #wildlife #death

It’s ironic that when I was alive, all I thought about was death. ↗

— Loretta Ellsworth

#death

Perhaps the bereaved ought to be isolated in special settlements like lepers. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#death

When I lost Rose, I kept going, I still do, but I’ll never be what I was when she was alive. It’ll always feel like something’s . . . not right, without her here. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#death

That’s what no one tells you. It’s harder to be the one left behind. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#death

in winter, we let our precious leaves go and seem to let go of all we are; then we find we are clothed with the sky itself, and instead of leaves we wear the stars. ↗

— Rachel Rivett

#death

Haruhi: This is a sibling squabble, not a fight to the death! You're both wrong, and acting like idiots only proves it! ↗

— Bisco Hatori

#idiots #siblings #twins #death