#linger

My parents had always been so careful with me, until the day they decided I needed to die. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#sam-roth #parenting

One thousand ways to say good-bye One thousands ways to cry One thousand ways to hang your hat before you go outside I say good-bye good-bye good-bye I shout it out so loud Cause the next time that I find my voice I might not remember how. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#linger #sam-roth #remember

I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#salinger #crazy

Flickering lights anonymous doors my heart escaping in drips i'm still waking up but she's still sleeping this ICU is hotel for the dead ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#sam-roth #escape

Come on," Cole said. He looked back over his shoulder at Mr. Brisbane, who was looking at me with a complicated expression as I left. Cole pointed at him and said, "You're a son of a bitch. He belongs here more than you do. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#linger #mr-brisbane #sam-roth #expression

Aren't you afraid?' 'Of what?' 'Of losing yourself.' 'That's what I'm hoping for. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#isabel #linger #mercy

The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#clock #death #drop #each #fever

The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the studio. I wanted to shout back at it, Maybe I didn't write you, but I found you. ↗

— Hoagy Carmichael

#became #found #happened #how #hung

Justin Salinger showed up one day with a pink cowboy hat on and everyone else got really annoyed because somehow he'd managed to get the pink cowboy hat. ↗

— Alex Cox

#because #cowboy #cowboy hat #day #else

I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football. ↗

— Alan Davies

#i #inclined #linger #magazine #more