#ear

Anyone? On Snow's visit before the Victory Tour, he challenged me to erase any doubts of my love for Peeta. "Convince me," Snow said. It seems, under that hot pink sky with Peeta's life in limbo, I finally did. And In doing so, I gave him the weapon he needed to break me. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#dystpoia-fiction #flash-back #heart-ache #loss #teen-fiction

In that one moment, I wrapped a thousand others. A lifetime of joy, sorrow, laughter, frowns, smiles, tears... life! ↗

— Faraaz Kazi

#romance #sad #tragic #life

Beethoven said that it's better to hit the wrong note confidently, than hit the right note unconfidently. Never be afraid to be wrong or to embarrass yourself; we are all students in this life, and there is always something more to learn. ↗

— Mike Norton

#beethoven #confidence #correct #fear #incorrect

We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "consciousness expansion" without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all the people who took him seriously... All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped create... a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody... or at least some force - is tending the light at the end of the tunnel. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#consciousness #leary #reality #life

Some molecules - ammonia, carbon dioxide, water - show up everywhere in the universe, whether life is present or not. But others pop up especially in the presence of life itself. Among the biomarkers in Earth's atmosphere are ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons from aerosol sprays, vapor from mineral solvents, escaped coolants from refrigerators and air conditioners, and smog from the burning of fossil fuels. No other way to read that list: sure signs of the absence of intelligence. ↗

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

#intelligence #life #intelligence

She was a dead girl having the worst panic attack shed ever had. Not because she was afraid of dying, but because she knew that she would never live again. ↗

— Tonya Hurley

#fear #living-life #life

A different species a different set of values a world completely unlike your own. There is a feeling you can only get when you meet the unknown and open your mind. - Nakajima (Gin no Saji) ↗

— Hiromu Arakawa

#learning #lesson #life #manga #open-mindedness

You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits. ↗

— Charles Yu

#life #storytelling #truth #writing #life

The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#hooker #hunter #loathing #thompson #waitress

It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to feel anyway. ↗

— Albert Camus

#heartbreak #life #love #relationships #sadness