#rin

On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#style #style

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#reassuring #true #true

Ah,” said a voice from the doorway, “having your annual ‘everyone thinks Will is a lunatic’ meeting, are you? “It’s biannual,” said Jem. “And no, this is not that meeting. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#will-herondale #think

You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. ↗

— John Green

#joh-green #nerdfighters #remember

If a mother is mourning not for what she has lost but for what her dead child has lost, it is a comfort to believe that the child has not lost the end for which it was created. And it is a comfort to believe that she herself, in losing her chief or only natural happiness, has not lost a greater thing, that she may still hope to "glorify God and enjoy Him forever." A comfort to the God-aimed, eternal spirit within her. But not to her motherhood. The specifically maternal happiness must be written off. Never, in any place or time, will she have her son on her knees, or bathe him, or tell him a story, or plan for his future, or see her grandchild. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#death #grief #grieving #loss #miscarriage

I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#suicide #hope

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#sharing #happy

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#laughter #mirth #old #wrinkles

Will has always been the brighter burning star, the one to catch attention — but Jem is a steady flame, unwavering and honest. He could make you happy. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jem-carstairs #will-herondale #happy

THE EDGE, there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#crazy #crisis #insanity #crazy