#mortal

I guess it’s true what they say," observed Jace. "There are no straight men in the trenches." "That’s atheists, jackass," said Simon furiously. "There are no atheists in the trenches. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace #mortal-instruments #simon #humor

I was thinking about the first time I ever saw you," he said, "and how after that I couldn't forget you. I wanted to, but I couldn't stop myself. I forced Hodge to let me be the one who came to find you and bring you back to the Institue. And even back then, in that stupid coffee shop, when I saw you sitting on that couch with Simon, even then that felt wrong to me-- I should have been the one sitting with you. The one who made you laugh like that. I couldn't get rid of that feeling. That it should have been me. And the more I knew you, the more I felt it--it had never been like that for me before. I'd always wanted a girl and then gotten to know her and not wanted her anymore, but with you the feeling just got stronger and stronger until that night when you showed up at Renwick's and I knew. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#teen-fantasy #teen

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#immortality #itself #marks #mathematics #off

Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#desirable #guess #i #images #immortality

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death. ↗

— Alexander Chase

#air travel #between #death #exhilarating #fact

If you are an antichrist, you won't believe in the bible prophecy from the beginning. Which means, you won't believe that physical immortality will become possible. ↗

— Alex Chiu

#become #beginning #believe #bible #immortality

I show people how to build their own immortality device. ↗

— Alex Chiu

#device #how #i #immortality #own

Immortality Device has been tested and researched by medical researchers all over the world from time to time. They email me and told me what they found. I post their results sometimes on my site. ↗

— Alex Chiu

#device #email #found #from time to time #i

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#err #error #gives #gladly #i

I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#congress #cover #i #immortal #library