#nic

Cynics are simply thwarted romantics. ↗

— William Goldman

#humor #life #romantics #writing #humor

Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#life #nicholas-sparks #the-rescue #youth #life

You'll always be my friend, won't you Fred? Don't let me fuck this up. I need you in my life now. I need the golden eyed girl who can make me smile. ↗

— L.H. Cosway

#life

He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was .... ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#life

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#human #life #philosophy #wisdom #life

To my surprise, Nick reached under his shirt and pulled out the half-heart pendant. With his gaze fixed on mine, he slid the chain over my head. “No one should have to go through life with only half a heart,” he whispered. ↗

— Katherine Allred

#heartbreak #life #nick #life

Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked prett?" I say. "It must be. The sensation is completely new. How have you managed it all these years?" he asks. "Just avoid mirrors. You'll forget about it," I say. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#katniss #life

They say when you're about to die, you see your entire life flash before your eyes. They lied. The only thing Nick Gautier could see flashing was Kyrian Hunter's vampire fangs. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#nick-gautier #life

It's time to float on the waters of the night. Time to wrap my arms around this book and press it to my chest, life preserver in a seat of unremarkable men and women anonymous faces on the street, a hundred thousand unalphabitized things a million forgotten hours. ↗

— Billy Collins

#picnic #life

It’s never a good thing when the black volhv says “Uh-oh” and then runs for his life. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#roman #life