#v

I'm skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take a high leap into the dark and come down thirty years later, I realize it is as Tim trying to save Timmy's life with a story. ↗

— Tim O'Brien

#vietnam #war #life

As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#struggle #survival #time #life

Single is not a status, it is a word that describes a person who is strong enough to live and enjoy life without depending on others. ↗

— prixie

#describe #enjoy #enough #life #live

Crazy by definition is Knowing that true sanity is A figment of the educated mind ↗

— Caleb Warta

#insightful #insights #life #writing #education

He stops rocking the cage. "Oh, come on, Callie. It won't be fun if we don't rock it. In fact, the more we rock it, the better it'll feel." His voice drops to a deep whisper. "We can rock it nice and slow or really, really fast."... "Do I have your permission to rock away and give you the ride of your life?" Why does it feel like he's secretly talking dirty to me? "Yeah, go ahead, rock it nice and hard," I say without thinking, then bite down on my lip as the dirty section of my brain catches up with me. Honestly, I didn't even know that side existed. ↗

— Jessica Sorensen

#double-entendre #hard #hott #kayden-and-callie #lust

If you can understand human behavior, it can’t hurt you nearly as much. ↗

— Carol Plum-Ucci

#hurt #life #life

People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#moving #the-world #traveling #life

Life is a combination of our positive and negative choices. ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#life

The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The citizen should be molded to suit the form of government under which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy. ↗

— Aristotle

#education

Yeah, isn’t it? Life’s a bitch and then one stabs you. ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#life