#death

Her family was a relay team racing toward Tomorrowland, but her father died, and in their shock they kept losing the baton. ↗

— Stacy Bierlein

#family #future #death

Here's all she had to say about death: "Oh my, oh my. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#kurt-vonnegut #death

Being a professional writer is a lot like being a hooker. You'd better find out if you're any good at it before you start charging for it. ↗

— Sharyn McCrumb

#writing #death

Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#change

That night in bed I was thinking about the way creeks and streams operate. They start off little, gurgling and bubbling and jumping over rocks and stuff, full of energy, going all over the place. Then they get older and bigger, become rivers, take a more definite course, stick to their path, know where they're going, get slower and wider. And eventually they reach the ocean and become part of this vast mysterious world of water that stretches away forever. Yep, just like people. ↗

— John Marsden

#life-and-death #life-changing #change

Don't rush to fellowship at the church, temple or mosque if you don't do so at the house - first. "Charity begins at home". ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#death

Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life. ↗

— Alan Bradley

#military #war #death

At the point so near to zero, just almost before the death, life’s value jumps to infinity! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#death

To know the Cross is not merely to know our own sufferings. For the Cross is the sign of salvation, and no man is saved by his own sufferings. To know the Cross is to know that we are saved by the sufferings of Christ; more, it is to know the love of Christ Who underwent suffering and death in order to save us. It is, then, to know Christ. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#suffering #the-cross #death

How odd; wedded for life, because one of us had died. ↗

— Emma Donoghue

#relationships #death