#th

We are pagans. We deify each other. ↗

— Lara Biyuts

#gods #life #love #religion #death

In the grueling light that passed for day... ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#life-and-death #death

You do not need God and Death as precursors to immortality. You need Life as a great fire, setting you and everything around you into a blaze. ↗

— Clare Morgan

#life #death

If you are distant and misanthropic, selfish or cruel, you will find yourself alone in life and death. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#life #way-of-life #death

Come out, Yamiko, come out... ↗

— Katlyn Charlesworth

#historical-fiction #japan #death

The bulletproof vest--'bullet resistant,' technically--is made of two double panels of a synthetic material called Kevlar, inside a cloth carrier that holds it around your torso like a lead X-ray smock. One cop wrote phrases from the Bible on his, 'Yea, though I walk in the valley of the Shadow of Death...' Other cops wrote their blood type. ↗

— Edward Conlon

#bullet-resistant #bulletproof #bulletproof-vest #death #job-hazards

Whose are all these ghosts?” she said, smiling at a flustered-looking Geraldine. “Oh,” said Geraldine, “I think they might be mine...? ↗

— Diane Hall

#ghosts #life-after-death #love #paranormal-romance #psychics

Take sleep mark death. ↗

— Glen L. Richards

#illu #jamaican #proverb #death

...she knew, with all her heart that running away from the country’s top relationship coach was as good as saying, 'there’s no hope for me, ever'! ↗

— Diane Hall

#ghosts #life-after-death #love #paranormal-romance #psychics

That's what death is, Danny thought: wanting to talk to someone and not being able to. ↗

— Jennifer Egan

#death