#red

Red", I write "is the color of life. It's blood, passion, rage. It's menstrual flow and after birth. Beginnings and violent end. Red is the color of love. Beating hearts and hungry lips. Roses, Valentines, cherries. Red is the color of shame. Crimson cheeks and spilled blood. Broken hearts, opened veins. A burning desire to return to white. ↗

— Mary Hogan

#pretty-face #red #life

Red hair is my life long sorrow. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#life

We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us. ↗

— Bobby Seale

#like #move #observe #police #scared

Then you need to fight for him. Don't give up on something like that. It doesn't come along very often. And when you find it, you hold on tight. You lock that shit down with an iron fist and you never, ever let go. Even when life tries to take it from you, you smack life upside its head like a little bitch and you keep on fighting for it. ↗

— A. Meredith Walters

#bad-rep #life

He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet. ↗

— William Golding

#tiredness #life

The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval. ↗

— Peter Singer

#human #human life #just #just because #life

I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#bed #better #bring #come #dinner

[No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial. ↗

— Charles Frazier

#life

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself. ↗

— John Fowles

#anyone #except #important #important questions #life

I'm smiled out, talked out, quipped out, socialized so far from any being, I need the weight of mortal silences to get realized back into myself. ↗

— John Ciardi

#tired #life