#life

By God, I shall spend the rest of my life getting my heart back, healing and forgetting every scar you put upon me when I was a child. The first move I ever made, after the cradle, was to crawl for the door, and every move I have made since has been an effort to escape. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

#life

It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start ↗

— Ron Rash

#life #tears #life

You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick. ↗

— Ron Rash

#life #mistakes #life

And that destination for which we should strive is one of a successful life not necessarily a life of success. ↗

— Andy Andrews

#life

I don't know," I said. "Maybe you're right, and all that stuff I think I missed is overrated. Why should I even bother? What's the point really?" He thought for a moment. "Who says there has to be a point?" he asked. "Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do." He moved down to start bagging while I just stood there, letting this sink in. Just something you have to do. No excuse or rationale necessary. I kind of like that. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#auden-west #eli-stock #life #sarah-dessen #life

We are all in flight from the real reality. That is the basic definition of Homo Sapiens. ↗

— John Fowles

#life

Life is so complete that even when we are knocked on our backs, we have the best view of the stars. ↗

— Laura Teresa Marquez

#life-s-goodness #protection #stars #life

Just the sight of one another, just the sight of our smiles was enough to fill our hearts with the joy of seeing each other again. ↗

— Sawada Tsunayoshi

#life

They always prided themselves on looking youthful. “Forty’s the new thirty,” they’d joke. Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty’s the new one hundred. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#georgie #grief #heartbreak #life

I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#distraction #fear #life #life