#ok

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. ↗

— Brooke Shields

#important #killed #kills #life #lost

That's how it is with relationships, it's a part of life, and all the great love songs and poems and films have been written by people who were standing where I was that morning as Simon shut the door. Doesn't make it any easier though. ↗

— Jane Green

#broken-heart #life

Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO? An arrow pointed to a small curtain. There were so many eager, curious hands that pulled at the curtain that we had to replace it regularly. Behind it was a mirror. ↗

— Yann Martel

#life #people #truth #life

Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself. ↗

— Harlan Ellison

#life #life

The thing about me and books is that whichever one I’m reading always reminds me of whatever’s happening in my life during that time. ↗

— Lauren Barnholdt

#kelsey #reading #the-thing-about-the-truth #life

The Germans in basements were pitiable, surely, but at least they had a chance. That basement was not a washroom. They were not sent there for a shower. For those people, life was still achievable. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#life

Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths... The first kind, they show you life like you want it to be. With villains getting what they deserve and the hero seeing what a fool he's been and marrying the heroine and happy endings and all that... But the second kind, they show you life more like it is... The first kind makes you cheerful and contented, but the second kind shakes you up. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#lies #life #matt #mattie #stories

In all my life I'd never been approached this way, the car pulling up, the Where you going? It was something I wish had happened hundreds of times. I was a looker - someone who looked over at every car at every traffic light, hoping something would happen, and almost never finding anyone looking back - always everyone looking forwards, and every time I felt stupid. Why should people look at you? Why should they care? ↗

— Dave Eggers

#you-shall-know-our-velocity #life

Ole Golly: You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life. ↗

— Louise Fitzhugh

#life

One of my rules is never to look sideways at what other people are doing but instead, do what I feel is right. ↗

— Annie Bryant

#children-s-books #children-s-literature #humanity #life-advice #self-assurance