#if

Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded and increasingly hard to please. I read less and less fiction these days, finding the buzz and the joy I used to get from fiction in ever stranger works of non-fiction, or poetry. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#life

The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you have lived with her handiwork for half a generation, you hardly notice anymore. You forget that this is not the way life has to be. You cease to marvel at just how much evil man con conjure by existing. ↗

— Glen Cook

#fortune #life

There are maps through your bones and skin, to the way you've felt and the way you've been. ↗

— Christopher Poindexter

#maps #past #remember #life

I would stand there at times and remember how beautiful God created this world, and then I would be reassured that he would certainly take care of me and all of my loved ones. ↗

— Diet Eman

#christianity #faith #god #jesus-christ #prison

The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#death #dying #tell-them-whatever-you-want #death

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.My sin,my soul.Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap,at three,on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo,plain Lo,in the morning,standing four feet ten in one sock. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#disgust #forbidden #inspirational #life #love

If someone treats you like SHIT, just remember that there is something WRONG with THEM, not YOU. Normal people dont go around destroying other Human Beings! ↗

— Unknown

#encouragement #happiness #life #positive #positive-women

By remembering how much we have to be grateful for we remind ourselves how beautifully God is already providing for our current needs. ↗

— Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson

#beauty

Wasn't it beautiful when you believed in everything? ↗

— Taylor Swift

#believe #innocent #inspirational #it-s-not-too-late #love

You're a fine young man, even if you have your own demons. We all do. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beautiful-redemption #beauty