#had

Running with a drowsy child of Hades was more like doing a 3 -legged race with a life size rag doll. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#nico #percy-jackson #life

Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can't drive. ↗

— Bud Abbott

#always #because #drive #driven #had

I had spared the stag's life. The power of that life belonged to me as surely as it belonged to the man who had taken it. ↗

— Leigh Bardugo

#the-grisha #life

Tak ada satu hal pun tanpa bayang-bayang, kecuali terang itu sendiri. ↗

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

#light #shadow #life

I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#australia #commuting #england #had #i

Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever. ↗

— Aleksandar Hemon

#nightmares #shadows #life

Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#earning #had #i #lots #money

I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#shadowfever #life

I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected — an arrival, an explanation, an apology. There had never been one, a fact I could have accepted, were it not true that, just when I had got used to the limits and dimensions of one moment, I was expelled into the next and made to wonder again if any shapes hid in its shadows. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#shadow #waiting #life

... there are shadows because there are hills. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#shadow #life