#vie

Why does IPCA use them if they’re evil?” he asked, confused. “They aren’t evil. They aren’t even really immoral, per se. They’re amoral. They don’t operate on the same level that we do. For a faerie, the only thing that matters is what they want. That’s their good. Anything else is superfluous. So like how they kidnap people, not a big deal—they want the person, they take him. Or killing someone. If you live forever, how much does one mortal life matter in the scheme of things? When you exist outside time, cutting off the forty years a person has left is a non-issue. They don’t even notice. ↗

— Kiersten White

#faeries #lend #morality #life

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

What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare? ↗

— W.H. Davies

#poetry #time #w-h-davies #life

Do I pray for her life or mine? They're one in the same...Be this soul in Thine hands...I stop, unable to pray for her ascension. I cannot let her go, I think in agony. I try again, May this soul in Thine hands be with me...always. ↗

— Amy A. Bartol

#reed-wellington #life

I have wanted you to see out of my eyes so many times. ↗

— Elizabeth Berg

#point-of-view #understanding #life

Who are we without our memories? ↗

— Marta Acosta

#la-vie #life #memories #truth #life

That's one of the amazing things great books like this do - they don't just get you to see the world differently, they get you to look at people, the people all around you, differently. ↗

— Will Schwalbe

#viewing-others #life

And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie. ↗

— Claudia Cardinale

#big opportunity #brooks #had #i #magnificent

I feel the other element of a western is the land, which is very important in this movie. I mean the land is another character in the piece, actually. ↗

— Tom Selleck

#another #character #element #feel #i

Hey, I don't have all the answers. In life, to be honest, I've failed as much as I've succeeded. But I love my wife. I love my life. And I wish you, my kind of successes. ↗

— Cameron Crowe

#movie-quotes #life