#om

Something your father wouldn't have told you, he began. Taking blood, it leaves a mark on you. No matter how it's done, or how it's justified, it leaves a mark that goes in deep. Be sure you're willing to wear that mark before you take the blood. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#death

Her dad died unexpectedly, so I hid the flowers, because flowers are reminders of spring and life, and also of headstones and death. Also, I hid the flowers because they were for another woman. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#flowers #funny #life #woman #death

I've always had an eye for nature, but it's the sort of thing to keep quiet about, because I don't want to come across as a mad hippy. But it makes sense to appreciate those things. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#across #always #appreciate #because #come

Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth. ↗

— Dennis Banks

#come #earth #even #healing #look

Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live. ↗

— Adam Ant

#companies #decline #i #live #music

Sometimes she has imagined what it would be like to fly, to live in the river, to run like a horse. She has dreamed of that freedom, that power, and fears the wildness in herself that wants to live as beasts live, moved purely by need and desire. She has felt torn between the heat of her limbs and the thoughts in her mind telling her to be careful and good and always calm ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#dreams #freedom #dreams

It was Jack's and Tom Watson's day yesterday. But today, it's another day. ↗

— Fuzzy Zoeller

#another day #day #jack #today #tom

Now when I say Sophie Ellis-Bextor I feel that's not really me because that's become this entity from doing the gigs and the shows and the make-up contracts and whatever else. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#become #contracts #doing #else #entity

God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#children #god #him #patient #really

If I die, who’s going to take care of my shadow? Or will it return to the night, from whence it came? While I sleep at night I keep my shadow folded neatly in my underwear drawer. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#die #funny #random #shadow #death