#eat

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust. ↗

Look, this is all very, very weird. Why are you focusing on rumours and urban legends? You haven’t even asked me any normal questions.” “Normal questions? Like what?” “Like, I don’t know, like if Lynch had any enemies.” “Did Lynch have any enemies?” “Well, not that I know of, no.” “Then there really was no point in me asking that, was there? Unless you wanted to distract me. You didn’t want to distract me, did you, Kenny?” “No, that’s not—” “Are you playing a game with me, Kenny?” “I don’t know what you’re—” Inspector Me leaned forward. “Did you kill him?” “No!” “It’d be OK if you did.” Kenny recoiled, horriﬁed. “How would that be OK?” “Well,” Me said, “maybe not ↗

— Derek Landy

#normal #skulduggery-pleasant #urban-legends #weird #death

We read the Golden Rule and judge it to be a brilliant distillation of many of our ethical impulses. And then we come across another of God’s teachings on morality: if a man discovers on his wedding night that his bride is not a virgin, he must stone her to death on her father’s doorstep (Deuteronomy 22:13-21). ↗

— Sam Harris

#morality #religion #death

Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#death-and-dying #death

A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#men #romance #death

...the dead have a way of becoming saints in the eyes of their survivors... ↗

— Rachel Vincent

#death #saints #death

There is no heaven or hell. No matter what you do while you're alive, everybody goes to the same place once you die. Death is Equal. ↗

— Tsugumi Ohba

#light-yagami #ryuk #shinigami #death

All was well. ↗