#no

Living is abnormal. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

#living

Joshua Joseph has no real hatred of modern technology - he just mistrusts the effortless, textureless surfaces, and the ease with which it trains you to do things in the way most convenient to the machine. Above all, he mistrusts duplication. A rare thing becomes a commonplace thing. A skill becomes a feature. The end is more important than the means. The child of the soul gives place to a product of the system....For anything really important, Joe prefers something with a history, an item which can name the hand which assembled it and will warm to the one that deploys it. A thing of life, rather than one of the many consumer items which humans use to make more clutter; strange parasitic devices with their own little ecosystems. ↗

— Nick Harkaway

#machines #moderism #technology #life

Pieces" Isn't that what all of life is anyway? Shards. Bits. Moments. Am I less because I have fewer, or do the few I have mean more? Am I just as full as anyone else? Enough? Pieces. Allys saying "I like you" Gabriel snorting out bread freeing me to laugh. And Ethan reminding me how much I do know. Pieces. I hold them likethey are life itself. They nearly are. ↗

— Mary E. Pearson

#life #pieces #unknown #life

We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we can’t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how we make sense of our lives and of the world. When we’re distressed and go to therapy, our therapist’s job is to help us tell our story. Life doesn’t come with plots; it’s messy and chaotic; life is one damn, inexplicable thing after another. And we can’t have that. We insist on meaning. And so we tell stories so that our lives make sense. ↗

— John Dufresne

#fiction #novel #story #storytelling #life

If economies collapse and lawlessness rules and resources are scarce, many people who claim with their mouths that they follow Jesus... will abandon him with their lives. ↗

— Brandon Andress

#abandoned #christian #christianity #collapse #economies

Men…” I huffed. “No guts, no glory…Do you guys stop to consider the insanity of all of it, or do you just charge ahead without a second thought?” “This from the woman who would surrender her own life without a moment’s consideration?” He had me there. ↗

— M.A. George

#paranormal-romance #life

She ordered a martini and encouraged me to, but said she couldn't drink it with her medication. She just liked seeing it in front of her, like the old days, all set to do its little magic. ↗

— Richard Ford

#life #memories #nostalgia #siblings #life

He had the muscular definition of a man who had spent his life restraining elephants in heat. ↗

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

#paranormal-fiction #suspense #thriller #life

Ilmu terbaik adalah yang diamalkan. Waktu terbaik, yang dioptimalkan. Cinta terbaik, yang dihalalkan. Harta terbaik, yang disedekahkan. Manusia terbaik, yang bermanfaat bagi manusia lain. ↗

— Ahmad Rifa'i Rif'an

#life #love #religious #life

Ivanov: And this whole romance of ours is commonplace and trite: he lost heart, and he lost his way. She came along, strong and brave in spirit, and gave him an helping hand. That's all very well and plausible in novels, but in life... Sasha: In life it's the same. Ivanov: I see you have a fine understanding of life! ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#novels #romance #life