#ld

Start looking around you...and all you see are people the world would be better off without. ↗

— Tsugumi Ohba

#people #world #death

I love stories with a happy ending,” Inspector Me said. ↗

— Derek Landy

#inspector-me #skulduggery #death

His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure--all the more intense for being held tightly in--his consistent view that every peril in life is a form of sport, a fierce game betwixt you and Fate, with Death as a forfeit, made him a wonderful companion at such hours. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#death

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#compassion #discipline #love #parenting #love

I am the prince of procrastination. It is my besetting sin. I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after ↗

— Gyles Brandreth

#oscar #wilde #death

Oftentimes I felt ridiculous giving my seal of approval to what was in reality such a natural thing to do, sort of like reinventing the wheel and extolling its virtues. Had parents' intuition sunk so low that some strange man had to tell modern women that it was okay to sleep with their babies? ↗

— William Sears

#co-sleeping #earthy #parenting #death

What can I say? I prefer to die well informed. ↗

— Nalini Singh

#elena #guild-hunter #humor #knowledge #life

For Isildur would not surrender it to Elrond and Círdan who stood by. They counselled him to cast it into the fire of Orodruin night at hand... But Isildur refused this counsel, saying: 'This I will have as weregild for my father's death, and my brother's. Was it not I that dealt the Enemy his death-blow?' And the Ring that he held seemed to him exceedingly fair to look on; and he would not suffer it to be destroyed. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#isildur #lord-of-the-rings #sauron #the-one-ring #the-ring-of-power

As indicated by the increase in maternal mortality in 2010, right now it's more dangerous to give birth in California than in Kuwait or Bosnia. Amnesty International reports that women in [the United States] have a higher risk of dying due to pregnancy complications than women in forty-nine other countries (black women are almost four times as likely to die as white women). The United States spends more than any other country on maternal health care, yet our risk of dying or coming close to death during pregnancy or in childbirth remains unreasonably high. ↗

— Jessica Valenti

#maternity-care #pregnancy #death

They should make earplugs for people who are grieving, so we don't have to hear the stupid things people say, but I'd look like a dork in them." -Corinna ↗

— Carole Geithner

#children-s-grief #death-of-a-loved-one #death-of-a-parent #grief #if-only