#lit

Everything is always a little surreal. ↗

— Paula Abdul

#everything #little #surreal

We human being build houses because we`re alive but we write books because we` re mortal. We live in groups because we`re sociable but we read because we know we`re alone. Reading offers a kind of companionship that takes no one`s place but that no one can replace either. It offers no definitive explanation of our destiny but links us inextricably to life. Its tiny secret links remind us of how paradoxically happy we are to be alive while illuminating how tragically absurd life is.” p.174 ↗

— Daniel Pennac

#literature #reading #life

We inhabit a world in which we tend to put labels on each other and expect that we will then march through life wearing them like permanent sandwich boards. ↗

— Nick Webb

#judgment #labels #nick-webb #personality #wish-you-were-here

Our kingdom is our life, and our life is our kingdom. We are all meant to rule from a glorious place. When God is on the throne, then so are we. When God is in exile, our lands are at war and our kingdoms are in chaos. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#woman #life

It considered trying to explain their error to them, but what would be the use? They would only go away with hurt feelings. You can't always expect people, or squirrels, to be rational. ↗

— Thomas M. Disch

#life #people #rationality #life

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. ↗

— Richard Bach in "Illusions"

#life

Just a thought. What sets us above all other life on this planet is our ability to read. What we read can determine our relationship with all other life on this planet. ↗

— M.J. Croan

#life

I will ask no more of life than this: that I might love you through all my days, and that you may find both peace and joy in the constancy of my heart. ↗

— Robert Sexton

#love #life

...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