#th

—Tenemos sólo diecisiete años, —dije en voz baja. —A la mierda los diecisiete años. —Sus ojos y su voz eran desafiantes—. Si tuviera que vivir mil años, te pertenecería en todos ellos. Si tuviéramos que vivir mil vidas, querría hacerte mía en cada una. ↗

— Michelle Hodkin

#vida

I wondered if all a person could hope for was illusion and luck, for I was forced to conclude that the world was fundamentally and appallingly dangerous. It is a lesson I will never forget. ↗

— Charlotte Rogan

#thought-provoking

Sometimes I wonder if any of us are cut out for the lives we lead. ↗

— Rebecca Wells

#thought-provoking

She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to need. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#thought-provoking

This is how everything should end: with the forgotten remembered, the wounded healed, and the sinners forgiven. ↗

— Jenny Hollowell

#thought-provoking

It is the story that lies around the edges of the photographs, or at the end of newspaper account. It's about the lies we tell others to protect them, and about the lies we tell ourselves in order not to acknowledge what we can't bear: that we are alive, for instance, and eating lunch, while bombs are falling, and refugees are crammed into camps, and the news comes toward us every hour of the day. And what, in the end, do we do? ↗

— Sarah Blake

#war #thought-provoking

Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#richard-feynmann #thought-provoking-humourous #thought-provoking

I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#thought-provoking #warning #thought-provoking

I tell everyone who asks me about writing...almost everyone has an idea for a book, and some even have a great ending, but it's that 290 or so pages in between that are tough! ↗

— Brooklyn Hudson

#thrillers #writing-advice #writing-craft #writing-craft

My mentor used to say that no one can make us feel badly about ourselves unless we allow it. He lectured me endlessly that the biggest offenders to shrink our self-worth weren't others, but ourselves. ↗

— Veronica Blade

#self-improvement #thought-provoking #wise-words #thought-provoking