#han

You came from different starts and you’ll come to different ends. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#hana #lena #life #life

Life goes on with fragile normalcy. ↗

— Sara Gruen

#life

If you expect the worse, you're only denying someone a chance to be better ↗

— Sangu Mandanna

#life #people #life

But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been. ↗

— John H. Reagan

#compel #domination #folly #free #i

I could think of worse ways of going than at the poker table. ↗

— Al Alvarez

#going #i #poker #table #than

Life is too precious to be left to chance ↗

— Walter Moers

#life #life

I’m Hana,” Hana says. “And this is Lena.” She jabs me with an elbow. I know I must look like a fish, standing there with my mouth gaping open, but I’m too outraged to speak. He’s lying. I know he’s the one I saw yesterday, would bet my life on it. “Alex. Nice to meet you.” Alex keeps his eyes on me as he and Hana shake hands. Then he extends a hand to me. “Lena,” he says thoughtfully. “I’ve never heard that name before. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#hana #lena-holoway #life

Not all can believe anything they want to, because not all have the ability to believe. ↗

— Toba Beta

#belief #chance #gift #life #truth

Some people read palms to tell your future, but I read hands to tell your past. Each scar makes a story worth telling. Each callused palm, each cracked knuckle is a missed punch or years in a factory. ↗

— Sarah Kay

#hands #life #past #story #life

i feel like my life is so scattered right now. like it’s all these small pieces of paper and someone’s turned on the fan. but talking to you makes me feel like the fan’s been turned off for a little bit. like things could actually make sense. you completely unscatter me, and i appreciate that so much. ↗

— John Green

#life