#if

Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer. No, no, I was neither. Ladies and gentleman of the jury, the majority of sex offenders that hanker for some throbbing, sweet-moaning, physical but not necessarily coital, relation with a girl-child, are innocuous, inadequate, passive, timid strangers who merely ask the community to allow them to pursue their practically harmless, so-called aberrant behavior, their little hot wet private acts of sexual deviation without the police and society cracking down upon them. We are not sex fiends! We do not rape as good soldiers do. We are unhappy, mild, dog-eyed gentlemen, sufficiently well integrated to control our urge in the presence of adults, but ready to give years and years of life for one chance to touch a nymphet. Emphatically, no killers are we. Poets never kill. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#pedophilia #poets #soldiers #life

I had lost all hope believing that the Gods had created a soul mate to belong to me but now I have you here in my arms, I know it was worth all my lifetimes in wait. ↗

— Stephanie Hudson

#afterlife

That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays ↗

— Mitch Albom

#understanding #afterlife

Forget normal.” He grinned. “We’re going to be extraordinary. ↗

— Claudia Gray

#afterlife

I was asking if unwinding kills you, or if it leaves you alive somehow. C'mon—it's not like we haven't thought about it." (...) What do you think, Connor?" asks Hayden. "What hap­pens to your soul when you get unwound?" Who says I even got one?" For the sake of argument, let's say you do." Who says I want an argument? ↗

— Neal Shusterman

#opinion #soul #unwound #viewpoint #afterlife

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it. ↗

— Colum McCann

#travel #afterlife

I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls. ↗

— John Green

#augustus-waters #souls #afterlife

Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray. ↗

— Michael Ignatieff

#forgetting #memory #afterlife

tiny: did someone die? me: yeah, i did. he smiles again at that. tiny: well, then... welcome to the afterlife. ↗

— David Levithan

#afterlife

There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches, growing in opposing but perfect symmetry. The branches don't think much about the roots, and maybe the roots don't think much about the branches, but all the time, they're connected by the trunk, you know? ↗

— Gabrielle Zevin

#tree #afterlife