#ect

Dream with my eyes open Sleep when I am dead Love who my heart's chosen Conquer what lies ahead ↗

— Ryan Keith Follese'

#follese #hot-chelle-rae #hotchellerae #keith #lovesick

The unlimited creativity of humanity has created cruelty so chilling that death itself has become a welcomed and kind benefactor. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#cause-and-effect #generations #death

Perhaps this is the purpose of detective investigations, real and fictional -- to transform sensation, horror and grief into a puzzle, and then to solve the puzzle, to make it go away. 'The detective story,' observed Raymond Chandler in 1949, 'is a tragedy with a happy ending.' A storybook detective starts by confronting us with a murder and ends by absolving us of it. He clears us of guilt. He relieves us of uncertainty. He removes us from the presence of death. ↗

— Kate Summerscale

#crime #detective-stories #detectives #investigations #mysteries

That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors. ↗

— Vincent H. O'Neil

#directing #mystery #playwriting #theater #writing

There are three certainties in a writer's life: death, taxes, and rejection letters. ↗

— T.L. Rese

#rejection #writing-life #death

We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to which we will then be able to provide food and water and medical help. ↗

— Les Aspin

#come #finding #food #help #kurdish

There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder. ↗

— Margery Allingham

#crime #detective #murder #death

You can pray and fight at the same time, Corporal. Especially if you learn how before things get rough. It’s important to have a philosophy of life . . . and of death. -- Chartist Gorman in GLORY MAIN ↗

— Henry V. O'Neil

#conscientious-objector #space-war #survival #war-in-space #death

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#burden #chiefly #conventional #credited #falls

Good and evil,” Nick said. “Yin and yang. Male and female. Life and death. The dualities that make us human. As though our lives play out on an immense balance scale—move one way, the scale tips to the left, but move the other, and it swings around to the right. ↗

— Abramelin Keldor

#paranormal #death