#ear

There was no up, there was no down. There was a steady, nauseated life five minutes ago, but nothing five minutes from now. And then, very suddenly, there was no 'now. ↗

— Paige Harbison

#sad #tears #life

You can't just skip the boring parts." "Of course I can skip the boring parts." "How do you know they're boring if you don't read them?" "I can tell." "Then you can't say you've read the whole play." "I think I can live a happy life, Meryl Lee, even if I don't read the boring parts of The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark." "Who knows?" she said. "Maybe you can't. ↗

— Gary D. Schmidt

#life #philosophy #reading #shakespeare #life

I am someone who has a cold heart. If I am beside a great grief I throw barriers up so the loss cannot go too deep or too far. There is a wall instantly in place, and it will not fall. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#heart #life #life

It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start ↗

— Ron Rash

#life #tears #life

They always prided themselves on looking youthful. “Forty’s the new thirty,” they’d joke. Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty’s the new one hundred. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#georgie #grief #heartbreak #life

I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#distraction #fear #life #life

The only thing I am afraid of is fear. ↗

— Arthur Wellesley

#am #fear #i #i am #only

Then they grow away from the earth then they grow away from the sun then they grow away from the plants and the animals. They see no life. When they look they see only objects. The world is a dead thing for them the trees and the rivers are not alive. the mountains and stones are not alive. The deer and bear are objects. They see no life. They fear. They fear the world. They destroy what they fear. They fear themselves. ↗

— Leslie Marmon Silko

#life

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#life #time #life

I think I need a little break. I've got a two-year old. I'll be part of The Leisure Class for a while. ↗

— Lauren Ambrose

#class #got #i #i think #leisure