#tru

Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #euphemism #literature #literature-quotes #nature

In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end. ↗

— Daniel Wallace

#sympathy #truth #nature

Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of trees fall off, the edge of steel and the gleam of ivory are dulled, hives of bees die, even bronze and iron are at once seized by rust, and a horrible smell fills the air; to taste it drives dogs mad and infects their bites with an incurable poison. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

#nature

This is your birthday treat, and you're supposed to enjoy it, I reminded myself. It was part of my normal existence to give myself instructions like this. Maybe other people acted and lived in total naturalness. I often wondered if they did. But me? I needed an operating manual. ↗

— Lauren Myracle

#enjoy #life-instructions #operating-manual #life

Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#honesty #life #truth #death

I’d never seen anything like it. First a trial, then a few murders, then dancing. Life goes on. Or, in this case, death continues. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#life #true-blood #vamps #death

Authority seems to be nothing other than the vanishing-point of textuality. And Nature is authority whose textual origins have been forgotten. ↗

— Barbara Johnson

#nature

Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what's right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time. ↗

— Mira Grant

#inspirational #lies #truth #beauty

She took out a shiny folded pamphlet, the kind they kept stacked in clear plastic stands in hospital waiting rooms. "How to Come Out to Your Parents," she read out loud. "LUKE. Don't be ridiculous. Simon's not gay, he's a vampire. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#mortal-instruments #vampire #parenting

Without law in some form, and, also, without butting up against that law, we cannot move forward easily or naturally. We have to have something hard and half-good to rebel against. ↗

— Richard Rohr

#rules #structure #nature