#th

hot afternoon the squeak of my hands on my daughter's coffin ↗

— Lenard D. Moore

#family #death

Yeah? What'd you name all those cats?" Death, Famine, Pestilence, War, and Mr. Whiskers." You named your cats after the riders of the apocal--wait. Mr. Whiskers?" Well, there are only four horsemen. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#death

Absolute silence greeted the mystery of death, and for a time impossible to measure they waited, motionless, while Lynn's spirit rose from her body. Severo felt a long howl surging from the center of the earth and passing through his body to his lips, but it did not escape. The scream invaded him, filled him, and burst inside his head in a silent explosion. Portrait in Sepia, Isabel Allende. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#death

Funerals consist of older generations initiating the younger into another adulthood. Filling spaces of the one passed. ↗

— Darnell Lamont Walker

#initiation #death

The trigger has been squeezed, the deathly mechanism has been enabled, the fatal course of a bullet has been set. No amount of bleating or praying or wailing of cajoling can halt it or stall it or call it back. ↗

— Nicola Barker

#death

I spit upon your God! ↗

— William Golding

#pincher-martin #death

Some things in life are certain; death, taxes, and that your family will piss you off. ↗

— Melanie Finn

#funny #life #death

I know how precious life is. You had no right to take Renaud's and you have no right to take your own now. Not over this. Too much death. It needs to stop. ↗

— Louise Penny

#precious-life #death

Birthday calls death close. ↗

— Abhinandan Kumar

#inspirational #life #truth #death

The smell was like chocolate and cookies and biscuits and gravy and everything else that was delicious. It damn near drove me crazy every time I had to touch one. I’d been fighting the cravings the way I’d never fought the urge to take drugs or get drunk. ↗

— Diana Rowland

#death