#ily

There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily. ↗

— J. Carter Brown

#lot #no point #point #unnecessarily

Tiger Lily made an attempt at a smile. After having felt the need to glower at other children for most of her life, smiles never came easily to her face. But this one was half all right. "I miss you already," he said. Tiger Lily wanted to say it back. But she held on to the words greedily, too caught in the habit of keeping herself a secret. And Peter-half sadly, half-expectantly-let her go. ↗

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

#secret #smile #tiger-lily #life

The same as real life, there is no happily ever after. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#life

To live is so startling, it leaves very little time for anything else. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#life #life

The past is a room full of baggage and rubbish and sometimes things that are of use, but if they are of real use, I have kept them. ↗

— Jamaica Kincaid

#life #the-past #life

Families start out, most of the time, with unconditional acceptance of one another. That acceptance starts in childhood and continues into adulthood. Somewhere in there, between childhood and adulthood, the ability to distinguish right versus wrong is born. ↗

— Bart Hopkins

#family #life #literature #morality #texas

The thing I've noticed about life is that it just keeps coming at you. And it can be a real bummer. What you need to remember is that you're not alone. You've got friends and family. That's how we get by. We talk and share and eat cake and giggle in the dark, even when we're scared - no, especially when we're scared. ↗

— Bill Condon

#family

Now, Lily said, her burning voice bitter. Now you give me a choice. The ministar flared to life in her palm again. Thus do I choose, you son of a bitch. Knight of Winter, burn and die. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#life

Certainly sand was not suitable for life. Yet, was a stationary condition absolutely indispensable for existence? Didn't unpleasant competition arise precisely because one tried to cling to a fixed position? If one were to give up a fixed position and abandon oneself to the movement of the sands, competition would soon stop. Actually, in the deserts flowers bloomed and insects and other animals lived their lives. These creatures were able to escape competition through their great ability to adjust--for example, the man's beetle family. While he mused on the effect of the flowing sands, he was seized from time to time by hallucinations in which he himself began to move with the flow. ↗

— Kōbō Abe

#competition #fixity #family

Granma's name was Bonnie Bee. I knew that when I heard him late at night say, 'I kin ye, Bonnie Bee,' he was saying, 'I love ye,' for the feeling was in the words. ↗

— Forrest Carter

#love #education