#eat

People can attach themselves to something--an idea, another person, a desire--with an impossibly strong grip, and in the case of restless ghosts, a grip stronger than death. Will is a powerful thing. Will--it's supposed to be a good treat, a more determined and persistent version of determination and persistence. But will and obsession--they sit right next to each other. They pretend to be strangers and all the while meet secretly at midnight." - ↗

— Deb Caletti

#profound #relationships #death

Even if you are alive somewhere, the absence of the other person who used to be there beside you obliterates your presence. Everything in the room, even the stars in the sky, can disappear in a second, changing one scene for another, just like in a dream. ↗

— Hwang Sŏk-yŏng

#death-of-a-loved-one #dreaming #hwang-sok-yong #loneliness #solitude

Always. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#lovers #death

There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss. Everything involves loss; every relationship ends in one way or another. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#life #loss #death

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

#life #living #love #strength #death

One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#christmas #deathly-hallows #desire #family #joke

I have to tell you it was the first time even after all these years of expecting my own death that i truly knew what it meant to die because with you gone there was nothing left for me to live for. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#the-viscount-who-loved-me #death

I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words) ↗

— John Newton

#heaven #last-words #life #paradise #death

And that's the second time we've saved your life tonight, you two-faced bastard!' Ron yelled. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#ron-weasley #death

I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die. ↗

— John Green

#death #death