#eat

The first time I met death, it was at a ball and we danced a waltz. ↗

— Charlotte Featherstone

#isabella-s-imagination #seduction-and-scandal #death

Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come ↗

— William Shakespeare

#fate #death

Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death #j-k-rowling #the-casual-vacancy #death

She said to embrace each change as if it were a small death. ↗

— Suzanne Morrison

#death #change

Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas. ↗

— José Saramago

#death

Just when it seemed my mother couldn’t bear one more needle, one more insane orange pill, my sister, in silence, stood at the end of the bed and slowly rubbed her feet, which were scratchy with hard, yellow skin, and dirt cramped beneath the broken nails, which changed nothing in time except the way my mother was lost in it for a while as if with a kind of relief that doesn’t relieve. And then, with her eyes closed, my mother said the one or two words the living have for gratefulness, which is a kind of forgetting, with a sense of what it means to be alive long enough to love someone. Thank you, she said. As for me, I didn’t care how her voice suddenly seemed low and kind, or what failures and triumphs of the body and spirit brought her to that point— just that it sounded like hope, stupid hope. ↗

— Jason Shinder

#hope #life #love #change

When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#marriage #change

When you're young your reality is accepted by most. When you're older, your reality changes and that seems to upset most people. ↗

— Solange nicole

#life-and-living #memories #change

No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble. ... it was real muggy earlier, hot enough to cook a bear. Anyway, you get used a rapid weather change. ↗

— Annie Proulx

#weather #change

I can't believe this heat," Abbey said, taking her tunic and pulling it over her head. Underneath was a form-fitting top that showed a figure unaccustomed to idleness or excess. Kip stared at her the way he had at the shiney curves of the steel horse back in the garage. "Can you imagine what it must have been like hundreds of years ago, when weather changed just a few times a year?" she said, wiping sweat from her brow with the back of her hand. "Yeah, it must have looked great," Kip said. "What do you mean looked great?" Abbey said, turning her eye on Kip. "Must have been great, like you said," he corrected. ↗

— Shawn Keenan

#funny #heat #kip #pervert #change