#tru

You don't get it, Clary. You don't understand what it's like to live always at war, to grow up with battle and sacrifice. I guess it's not your fault. It's just how you were brought up- ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-glass #isabelle-lightwood #life #mortal-instruments #sacrifice

Only after disaster can we be resurrected. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#life #loss #resurrection #life

Because, sometimes, things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#life #people #things #truth #life

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#course #distrust #i #improve #lives

People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long. ↗

— Sarah Addison Allen

#truth #life

Contentment and happiness didn't exist in my life for more than a few moments at a time, and they were really only illusionary. There was always something hidden. Lying in wait to spring up and ruin everything. ↗

— Sylvia Day

#truth #life

I’m two hours late when I pull in to the driveway. It won’t matter that I’m always on time. People never see how good you are. Fuck up once, and it’s like you are wearing a neon sign. ↗

— Corrine Jackson

#people #relationship #trust #life

Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth? ↗

— Bill Watterson

#religion #truth #life

There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#poetry #struggle #life

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#true-love #women #life