#rave

I want my life to be the greatest story. My very existence will be the greatest poem. Watch me burn. Love always, Charlotte ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#dreams #existence #goals #growing-up #inspiration

Fear cuts deeper than swords. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#fear #fear

She was brave from excess of grief ↗

— Edith Hamilton Mythology

#bravery #courage #grief #loss #niobe

One egg, one embryo, one adult - normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult. Making ninety-six human beings grow where one grew before. Progress. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#brave-new-world #new-adult

The chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy. A daredevil jump off this ledge will end your life. It has happened before and it will happen again. You’ve been warned. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#bravery #chasm #death #fall #fine-line

It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot. ↗

— Edmond About

#collected #country #every #examined #i

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#birth #give #gleams #grave #instant

I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#along #avoid #covered #crosses #fields

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#distance #excellence #judge #peak #people

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#easy #grave #hard #i #into