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Most of the time-- 99 percent of the time-- you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#ironic #life

It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period ↗

— Alice Walker

#life

Sweet life continues in the breeze, in the golden fields. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#breeze #field-station #jack-kerouac #life #life

Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do wrong; yet these hard judgments had come. Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently? ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#life

My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life. ↗

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

#life

But sticking to rules just because they're there does not make them right. You need to learn when the rules should be broken. ↗

— Ilsa J. Bick

#life

But thoughts don't care about truth and shit. They sit up in your mind and fuck with you whenever. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#truth #life

Everything looks better with my eyes closed. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#life #poetic-theory #poetical #theory-of-life #life

Excellent. I've been told I have a lovely, melodic reading voice." He flipped the book open to the front page, where the title was printed in ornate script. Across from it was a long dedication, the ink faded now and barely legible, though Clary could make out the signature: With hope at last, William Herondale. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#will-herondale #love

Even though I knew she wasn't going to jump, seeing her standing on the ledge made me realize that I want and need her in my life forever. She challenges me, pushes me, and pisses me off, but I wouldn't have it any other way. ↗

— Jessica Sorensen

#life