#favourite

So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#favourite-books #inspirational #sad #soul-searching #wallflower

Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me. ↗

— Dinah Sheridan

#favourite #i #me #role #screen

It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's. ↗

— Richard D. James

#arrogant #else #ever #favourite #i

I don't spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That's my least favourite place in the world. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#favourite place #i #least #locker #locker room

The crime novel has always been my favourite genre. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#been #crime #favourite #genre #novel

As a teenager, my favourite rejection was, 'She looks too healthy,' which of course translates as, 'She needs to lose weight.' ↗

— Christina Ricci

#favourite #healthy #looks #lose #needs

My favourite game is Postal because it is so politically incorrect. ↗

— Uwe Boll

#favourite #game #incorrect #politically #politically incorrect

Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wizard or the dwarves or of anyone else, made a great difference to Mr. Baggins. He felt a different person, and much fiercer and bolder in spite of an empty stomach, as he wiped his sword on the grass and put it back into its sheath. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#favourite #courage

When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "So it goes. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#death #excerpt #favourite-quote #life #novel

What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#dark #death #favourite-quote #truth #death