#eat

Hector wished suddenly that leaving the circus was as easy as joining. He didn't fancy the ghost of Harvey Burfoot hunting him down and passing judgement on him. Troupe mythology varied on the details – some said he had the ability to stop your heart with just a stare, others that he strangled you with corporeal hands that grew stronger as he drained your life-force. Either way, the Law was that nobody left; to leave was death; and Hector didn't hate himself that much yet. ↗

— Jackie Trippier Holt

#fantasy #freaks #death

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. ↗

— Anatole France

#accomplish #act #also #believe #dream

Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved. ↗

— Marie de France

#before #city #cry #great #heard

Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#consider #humane #humans #inflicted #property

Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It's strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#different #dogs #eating #else #enjoy

We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#animal #because #eat #fur #good

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#i #journey #never #order #prepare

My chest tightens to the point I fear my heart will suffocate from the pressure of it. Society's standards are the total opposite from how I was raised. The boy who I thought to be so strikingly handsome has less than a year of his life to live, my new friend only a few more months beyond that. Yet they are living these uneventful lives in which they don't think there is a reason for anything. Will I ever see my mother again, or is this how I will be forced to live the rest of my life, as well? ↗

— Jen Naumann

#dystopian #dystopian-fiction #life-and-death #death

Being a wife and a mother is very gratifying, but it's not a creative expression and that's something I need to be happy. ↗

— Genie Francis

#being #creative #creative expression #expression #gratifying

Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life. ↗

— Mahmoud Darwish

#poetry #death