#ties

When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age. ↗

— Eliza Dushku

#age #around #feel #get #people

When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#opportunities #life

It was the damnedest thing, life. Once you decide exactly how things are going to go, something or someone comes along and messes it all up. ↗

— Jennifer Armintrout

#ashes #blood #jennifer #ties #to

At some point the choice you will face is whether to carry out your duties or live your life ↗

— Cayla Kluver

#duties #life #life

I have to admit we are locked in the most exquisite mysterious muck. This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and has a mayor. To describe it takes many hundreds of thousands of words. Our muck is only a part of a much greater muck -- the nation-state -- which is itself the creation of that muck of mucks, human consciousness. Of course all these things also have a touch of sublimity -- as when Moonbelly sings, for example, or all the lights go out. What a happy time that was, when all the electricity went away! If only we could re-create that paradise! By, for instance, all forgetting to pay our electric bills at the same time. All nine million of us. Then we'd all get those little notices that say unless we remit within five days the lights will go out. We all stand up from our chairs with the notice in ours hands. The same thought drifts across the furrowed surface of nine million minds. We wink at each other, through the walls. ↗

— Donald Barthelme

#human-society #humor #life #life

It's entirely conceivable that life's splendor surrounds us all, and always in its complete fullness, accessible but veiled, beneath the surface, invisible, far away. But there it lies—not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If we call it by the right word, by the right name, then it comes. This is the essence of magic, which doesn't create but calls. ↗

— Gustav Kafka

#possibilities #life

You can't love a city if you have no memories burried there. ↗

— Marina Tavares Dias

#love #memories #places #love

Traffic's not too bad on Sheridan, and I'm cornering the car like it's the Indy 500, and we're listening to my favorite NMH song, "Holland, 1945," and then onto Lake Shore Drive, the waves of Lake Michigan crashing against the boulders by the Drive, the windows cracked to get the car to defrost, the dirty, bracing, cold air rushing in, and I love the way Chicago smells—Chicago is brackish lake water and soot and sweat and grease and I love it, and I love this song, and Tiny's saying I love this song, and he's got the visor down so he can muss up his hair a little more expertly. ↗

— John Green

#love

I know that you know that I'm awesome, and that you know that I know that you're awesome! ↗

— Shreya Gunna

#besties #crazy #love #random-quote #love

Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#attacks #communities #everyday #exacerbated #families