#m

She has the mysterious solitude of ambiguous states; she hovers in a no-man’s land between life and death, sleeping and waking. ↗

— Angela Carter

#dream #life #reality #sleeping #waking

We all know so goddamn well what's best for other people that it seems unnecessary we get to know them before imposing our will on them. ↗

— Taylor Nadeau

#domineering #strongarm #will #death

National Record Mart began when Hyman Shapiro and his sons Sam and Howard opened their first music store in 1937. A tiny storefront in downtown Pittsburgh, they called it Jitterbug Records and sold used jukebox records for a dime apiece. ↗

— Gary Calamar and Phil Gallo

#music

Wise men don't need concrete answers. By definition, they need wisdom." ~ Geraki ↗

— Richelle Mead

#age

I can understand bitchiness in any language. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#humor #retort #richelle-mead #snarkiness #age

Death chased you Natalie. You have lived your life surrounded by it. You seek it. You creep around in dark places searching for it but you are afraid of it aren’t you? ↗

— Nicole T. Smith

#death

The poignant words that Mme Duruflé addressed to one of her American students, saddened that his year's study with her had come to an end, were as apropos at the time of her death: 'Oh no, don't be sad. We have played the prelude to a friendship; we have all of life for the fugue. ↗

— James E. Frazier

#maurice-durufle #death

The reason dying is so easy is because death has no meaning... And the reason death has no meaning is because life has no meaning. All the same, have fun! Pierre Anthon ↗

— Janne Teller

#meaninglessness #death

Death moved in the night, in search for blood, and when it found Life, it passed on by, like a cloud that moves by the face of the moon. When he found those dead without the red, he took the life before them born first, and the mourning emptied itself till the morning. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#blood #exodus #freedom #israel #life

Personal effects: how irrelevant they are, how sad, how lost, how vagrant, without the force that gives them purpose. ↗

— Sarah Hall

#life #losing-someone #personal-effects #death