#tragedy

I do have a point to all this,” she continues. “There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But we’re all your family.” She stops now. Leans over me so that the wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead. “You still have a family,” she whispers. ↗

— Gayle Forman

#inspirational #tragedy #young-adult #family

It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#feminism #freedom #patriarchy #third-wave-feminism #tragedy

[A]s Agatha Swanburne once said, 'To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions. ↗

— Maryrose Wood

#greek-tragedy #humor #reading #humor

It didn’t take tragedy or war to derail a man. It took only a memory. ↗

— Ali Shaw

#memory #tragedy #life

I believe every abortion is a tragedy. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#believe #every #i #i believe #tragedy

The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not exist and the one who exists I do not see. ↗

— Kedar Joshi

#life #tragedy #life

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. ↗

— Sholom Aleichem

#comedy #dream #fool #game #life is a

A lot of you cared, just not enough. ↗

— Jay Asher

#suicide #tragedy #reason

Yet we met; and fate bound us together at the alter,and I never spoke of passion nor thought of love. She, however shunned society, and, attaching herself to me alone rendered me happy. It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#dreams

A darkness different from Ember's, but just as frightening... ↗

— Jeanne DuPrau

#adventure #drama #expedition #tragedy #drama