#lark

Life is slow dying. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#larkin #life #death

Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#letters-to-monica #philip-larkin #poem #poet #poetry

Sometimes, when you were thinking about something, trying to understand it, it opened up in your head without you expecting it to, like it was a soft spongy light unfolding, and you understood, it made sense forever… ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#coming-of-age #growing-up #paddy-clarke #roddy-doyle #age

I just don't want them to change me, if I'm going to die I still want to be me. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#peeta-mellark #change

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#children #letters-to-monica #philip-larkin #poem #poet

Since God is truth, a contempt for truth is equally a contempt for God. ↗

— Gordon H. Clark

#clark #philosophy #truth #education

What was that you were saying just before the food arrived? Something about me...no competition...best thing that ever happened to you..." "I don't remember that last part," I say, hoping it's too dim in here for the cameras to pick up my blush. "Oh, that's right. That what I was thinking," he says. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#katniss-everdeen #peeta-mellark #food

Because...because...she came here with me. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#love #peeta-mellark #the-hunger-games #love

He will always be my Sir Galahad. ↗

— Ava Gardner

#clark-gable #friendship #friendship

Do it. Before they send those mutts back or something. I don't want to die like Cato," he says. “Then you shoot me," I say furiously, shoving the weapons back at him. "You shoot me and go home and live with it!" And as I say it, I know death right here, right now would be the easier of the two. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#peeta-mellark #the-hunger-games #death