#if

This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#divorce #families #family-saga #forgetting #life

I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does. In fact nothing exists longer than an instant except the thing that we hold in memory ↗

— Sam Savage

#impermanence #last #life #memory #life

Life was simple when you were a Shield Bug. ↗

— Angie Sage

#magyk #shield-bug #life

Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough. ↗

— David Levithan

#trying #life

But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#dark-bird #life #present #life

Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame will last longer? ↗

— Roman Payne

#books #escape #flame #heroic #heroism

Maybe if I forgot things once in a while, we'd all be a little bit happier. ↗

— Jay Asher

#life #life

I'm not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by. ↗

— Sally Rand

#i #life #porch #sit #type

I know a lie when I hear one. ↗

— Adrian Mitchell

#lie #life #quote #sarcasm #satire

The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds. ↗

— James Randi

#fifteen #just #microwave #new #new age