#viv

War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly. ↗

— Aminatta Forna

#survival #war #love

Do you know the best way to get your body heat back?" Ethan asked her as he looked her in the eyes and stroked her glossy brown hair. “The way to warm up is to lie next to another person. Naked. ↗

— Amanda Bretz

#romance-novel #survival #love

She wanted to live, and live fully, and to give life, she who loved life! What was the good of existing, if you couldn't give yourself? ↗

— Émile Zola

#living-life #zola #love

Who needs them when we have each other? ↗

— Emily Hainsworth

#forever #love #together #viv #love

This island has no secrets, not from me. It loves me, and I love it, and when I paint my face I'm a part of the island. The swarthiness of my face hidden behind the clay and charcoal. I leave behind England, it's not important anymore, our island is all that matters. The rhythm of the hunt, the sun, beats deep in my blood. The littl'uns play, eat, and sleep, there good for nothing and just take up precious space on my island. I couldn't have known a ship would pass at the exact moment my hunters left the fire. We needed the meat. Everything was perfect, the pigs on the mountain, the hunters and our spears, we had to go then. The hunt was perfect, the gouts and gouts of blood, the pigs death screams. But that stupid boat went by, and destroyed my trophy. Then Simon, stupid little Simon, gives the fat belligerent Fatty a piece of meat. He doesn't deserve it, the fat, ass-mar infected, fatty. The know-it-all that says he could do better, he wouldn't he'd do the exact same thing in my shoes. Damn him, damn them all! They should have just taken the meat. Then Ralph stands there and tells me I'm too malevolent. I even apologized. He doesn't deserve to be chief, he's weak. He wouldn't do it, he wouldn't kill. There's power behind the spear, impalpable to people like Ralph. We dominate those pigs. Now that we have found the way to kill the pigs, we don't even need to be rescued. It doesn't matter that there was no fire to signal the ship, because we needed the men for the hunt, and I don't regret it anymore because now we have meat. ↗

— William Golding

#genius #leadership-characteristics #survival #death

As long as it’s an every man for himself kind of world, men will always be for themselves. - Mayor Bentley in 'Tilt ↗

— Ashley Chappell

#survival #men

Taking in money, banks were like industrial vacuum cleaners. Giving it out, they were clogged faucets ↗

— Dean Koontz

#money

It's all in the reflexes. ↗

— "Jack Burton" (Kurt Russell)

#prescience #reflexes #survival #survival-instinct #movies

Horror movies...odd how they became a guideline for survival. ↗

— Riannon Frater

#zombie #movies

Everyone judges constantly: positively judging one person is the same as negatively judging everyone else; it is to say that that person is superior in some sense. ↗

— Criss Jami

#human #human-nature #judging #judgmental #logic