#iv

And I'm the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experiences stop her. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#divergent #tris #death

Mad Eye' Moody on the Avada Kedavra curse: "Not nice," he said calmly. "Not pleasant. And there's no counter curse. There's no blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived it, and he's sitting right in front of me. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#curse #death #harry-potter #mad-eye-moody #survive

Most people say that as you get old, you have to give up things. I think you get old because you give up things. ↗

— Theodore F. Green

#get #give #i #i think #most

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#avoiding #death #equivalent #life

Sometimes they do things to make me do the opposite of what they think, I think, they think, I am going to do. ↗

— James Dashner

#death

No matter how many plans you make or how much in control you are, life is always winging it. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#life-and-living #philosophical #philosophy-of-life #spontaneity #death

Everyone dies. It is how one lives that matters. ↗

— R.A. Salvatore

#living #death

I breathe onto a mirror just to make sure I’m still alive, and to see how good looking my breath is. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#breathe #death #funny #mirror #vain

[Ella Baker]'s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership... 'She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone will rise. Someone will emerge'. It was an attitude Baker shared with some of the older women in the movement. ↗

— Gail Collins

#ella-baker #feminism #grassroots-organizing #leadership #naacp

I'm just full of surprises." Watching her, he waved the wrapped bar from side to side. "You can have the candy if you sit on my lap." That sounds like something perverted old men say to young, stupid girls." I'm not old, and you're not stupid." He sat, patted his knee. "It's Belgian chocolate." Just because I'm sitting on your lap and eating your candy doesn't mean you can cop a feel," she said as she folded into his lap. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#eve-dallas #roarke #death