#linger

This is a love story. I never knew there were so many kinds of love or that love could make people do so many different things. I never knew there were so many different ways to say goodbye. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#linger #love

Folded in my arms you're a butterfly in reverse you're giving up your wings and inheriting my curse you're letting go of me you're letting go ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#sam-roth #sam

When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#books #british #british museum #catalogue #die

I don't linger on the fact that Dawn Fraser was a great swimmer 40 years ago. That was in the past. I did break 41 world records, but I don't live on that today. ↗

— Dawn Fraser

#break #dawn #did #fact #great

I also say "Boy" a lot. Partly because I have a lousy vocabulary and partly because I act quite young for my age sometimes. I was sixteen then, and I'm seventeen now, and some times I act like I'm about thirteen. It's really ironical, because I'm six foot two and a half and I have gray hair. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#j-d-salinger #salinger #age

Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#death #flowers #holden-caulfield #j-d-salinger #death

They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food. ↗

— Stephen King

#chambers #dark-tower #deschain #gunslinger #hunger

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

So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories. ↗

— John Williams

#ephemeral #even #forgotten #gratifying #linger