#if

I held this girl in my arms She wrapped her tiny fingers around mine. It was then that I realized. She was the fusion. The glue. The cement that bound all my pieces together. The piece that seals my puzzle. The piece that completes my life. The element that makes me who I am. Who I was. Who I'll one day be. You, baby girl. You're my final piece. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#layken-cooper #my-final-piece #slam-poetry #will-cooper #life

I’m starting to get used to this feeling of not caring about anything. ↗

— J.A. Redmerski

#don-t-care #feeling #j-a-redmerski #life #the-edge-of-never

We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are. ↗

— Anthony Marra

#existance #humanity #life #self #wolves

I can pinpoint that as the single happiest moment of my life, because I realized then that Mom would always have my back. It made me feel giant. I raced back down the concrete ramp, faster than I ever had before, so fast I should have fallen, but I didn't fall, because Mom was in the world. ↗

— Maria Semple

#life

The tension of opposites: Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle. ↗

— Morrie Schwartz

#tuesdays-with-morrie #life

I never realized what a big deal that was. How amazing it is to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go on in your head. You just think that things will stay the way they are. You never look up, in a moment that feels like every other moment in your life, and think, "Soon this will be over". But I understand more now. About the way life works. ↗

— Nina LaCour

#hold-still #life #people #friendship

Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#live-life #time #life

It was kind of soothing, these sounds of lives being lived all around me, for better or for worse. And there I was, in the middle of them all, newly reborn and still waiting for mine to begin. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#life-and-living #life

We can't have any weak or silly. Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die. They ought to die. They ought to be willing to die. It's a sort of disloyalty, after all, to live and taint the race. ↗

— H.G. Wells

#life

This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality. ↗

— George Gordon Byron

#manfred #mortality #life