#lit

...larger than life...I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life? ↗

— Nicole Krauss

#life

IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#fears #reality-of-life #life

If you also thinks it means I wake up every morning wondering what I did to deserve having you back in my life, well, you'd be right about that too. ↗

— Julie James

#julie-james #romance #life

I suppose [my life] has most resembled a blue chip stock: fairly stable, more ups than downs, and gradually trending upward over time. A good buy, a lucky buy, and I've learned that not everyone can say that about his life. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#stability #life

Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#ignorance #life #reality #suffering #life

The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#spirituality #life

Anymore, no one's mind is their own. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#life #modernity #originality #life

Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#literature #reading #life

The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#life

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. ↗

— Mario Puzo

#life #literature #life