#sad

I tried to think of something to say. Excuse me? Hello? Marry me? Anything would have done. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#humor #romance #sadie #humor

Sadness and silence, two things I keep in jars in my basement that I label “Warning: Do not open. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#sadness #silence #humor

I found that things weren't going well upstairs. Carter was a crumpled heap of chicken warrior on the slope of the pyramid. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#humor #sadie #humor

Liz cleared her throat. "Isn't there a more polite term we're supposed to use nowadays? Like....little person, or vertically challenged,or-" "I'm not going to call myself the god of vertically challenged people," Bes grumbled. "I'm a dwarf! ↗

— Rick Riordan

#sadie-kane #humor

Darling, I don't want you; I've got no place for you; I only want what you give. I don't want the whole of anyone.... What you want is the whole of me-isn't it, isn't it?-and the whole of me isn't there for anybody. In that full sense you want me I don't exist. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#dialogue #introspective #sad #death

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#sadness #stoicism #imagination

Maybe you should say goodbye, Cal.' 'No.' 'It might be important.' 'It might make her die. ↗

— Jenny Downham

#cancer #death #love #sad #death

In the silence, she felt the past and the present shift and mix, but that was a mirage. There was no way to comfort the lost boy he'd been back then. But she had the grown male. She had him right in her arms, and for a brief moment of whimsy, she imagined that she was never, ever going to let him go. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#love #sadness #imagination

I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails. ↗

— Mary Boykin Chesnut

#i #i think #journal #like #me

And then his noise falls completely silent- And he stops struggling- And looking right into my eyes- He dies. My Todd dies. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#sad #shot #todd #death