#ife

Love is like a game of chess. You're white. He's black. You wait for him to make a move, while staring into his handsome, melting-you-on-the-inside eyes, then realize what a dummy he is to not tell you straight out to go first. The beginning is the crush stage. You begin to realize how much you want to defeat him, or make him fall in love with you. By the time you get to the heat of the game, you both moved and are hopefully dating. If you haven't forfeit then because you don't want to be cheated on, you make another move- head on shoulder, hand holding, etc. Black makes another move-he gives you his jacket on a freezing night. By the endgame, he either realizes how stupid he was to play with you and forfeits, or he realizes how smart you are and lets you defeat him (and love you). By the time you win, you're married to him. A happily ever after game of chess. ↗

— Amrita Ramanathan

#life #love #dating

The only certainty life contains is death. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#life #death

I have good news and I have bad news. The good news is that your house hasn't burned down, you don't have cancer, and your daughter hasn't been raped or murdered. The bad news is that I ran over your dog. And your son. And his wife. But not before I ran out of gas to achieve all of that. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#bad-news #crazy #death #family #good-news

We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#inspirational #life #death

I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#humor #life #death

And the worst part is before it gets any better we're heading for a cliff. And in the free fall I will realize I'm better off when I hit the bottom ↗

— Hayley Williams

#life-and-death #music-lyrics #death

One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#death #interesting #life #death

Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living. ↗

— Jo Nesbø

#depression #despair #life #death

It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em," said Captain Jim. "When I ponder on them seeds I don't find it nowise hard to believe that we've got souls that'll live in other worlds. You couldn't hardly believe there was life in them tiny things, some no bigger than grains of dust, let alone colour and scent, if you hadn't seen the miracle, could you? ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#life-after-death #resurrection #seeds #spring #death

Half naked, he drank her in with his eyes, imprinting this moment into his mind. This, he would take to his death – the woman that stirred him to life. ↗

— Dianna Hardy

#desire #hunger #life #love #lust