#ife

So this is where you grew up. Did you like it here? I guess you couldn't have, if you wanted to leave.' CHRISTINA 'I liked some things and hated some things. And there were some things I didn't know I had until I lost them.' TRIS ↗

— Veronica Roth

#life #tris #life

The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#life #truth #life

Then I said something. I said, Suppose, just suppose, nothing had ever happened. Suppose this was for the first time. Just suppose. It doesn't hurt to suppose. Say none of the other had ever happened. You know what I mean? Then what? I said. ↗

— Raymond Carver

#life #suppose #life

I have absorbed my life now. I am ready for my music to unfold. I know time flies, but before the end of this year, the album will be out. Even if it kills me. ↗

— Neneh Cherry

#am #before #end #even #flies

With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything... ↗

— Saul Bellow

#life #solitude #death

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#fear #life #death

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered...We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human. But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#death

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#life #que-sera-sera #inspirational

Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will ↗

— John Green

#love #margo-roth-spiegelman #truth #imagination

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present. ↗

— John Green

#labyrinth #life #past #present #imagination