#kill

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. ↗

— Brooke Shields

#important #killed #kills #life #lost

For the life of me, I did not understand how he[Atticus] could sit there in cold blood and read a newspaper when his only son stood an excellent chance of being murdered with a Confederate Army relic. ↗

— Harper Lee

#humor #to-kill-a-mockingbird #humor

To kill a man, you steal a life ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#life #steal #life

An evil can only be killed by another kind of evil, because the pure spirit of peace can not do killing. ↗

— Toba Beta

#evil #kill #life #peace #pure-spirit

Would Alona be gone before I even got a chance to say good-bye? A real good-bye? One last kiss and the chance to tell her that she’d made my life better even as she’d made me crazy? That we were better together than I would ever be by myself, but that because of her, I would be okay? Not great, but okay, and I owed that all to her? No. I needed to see her one last time. ↗

— Stacey Kade

#life

Follow the rules until you make them. ↗

— Luke Green

#skills #truisms #writing #life

You should be grateful that you were even blessed for a moment. You have been rescued from your rotting corpse. You have experienced immortality. You have experienced perfection. Look at yourself. This is your purest form. Your worst qualities have been sifted out, the flaw and weaknesses blown away. The way you have been experiencing the world with your pathetic human senses? Now you know. You were living in a fog. You were appreciating only a fraction of what this world has to offer. That life was worth nothing. ↗

— Wynne Channing

#what-kills-me #life

You must have been working very hard here, with so few distractions.” Mary’s eyes darkened and she looked away. “Not quite as much as I hoped for. At times the loneliness and the unanswered questions can get overwhelming, like very loud voices echoing inside my head, just asking ‘why’ ‘who’ and making me think about my wasted life. ↗

— Olga Núñez Miret

#fbi #police-procedural #psychiatry #rape #serial-killer

All I wanted, even when I hated you most, was some poor, barren, parched excuse to love you. But you only gave me riddles. ↗

— Patricia A. McKillip

#harpist #morgon #patricia-mckillip #riddle-master #love

Your best penalty killer is your goalie. ↗

— Dave Allison

#killer #penalty #your