#w

I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#after #die #ever #felt #going

I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles. ↗

— Bjork

#could #having #i #mind #nerd

It would be a lot different for me because there is a lot of information that you need to know about as a player. How pitchers are pitching you, how defenses are playing, certain situations about certain pitchers. ↗

— Ernie Banks

#because #certain #defenses #different #how

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check. ↗

— Russell Banks

#solitude #spend #time #total #working

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. ↗

— Mark Twain

#astonish #gratify #people #rest #right

Mr. Wrigley believed in this: Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. They don't do that today. This is the old-fashioned way I'm talking about. He carried it on to his business. Do one thing and stay with it. ↗

— Ernie Banks

#basket #believed #business #carried #eggs

In high school I definitely had a clique of friends. And what I loved about it was that we were healthy and good girls. ↗

— Tyra Banks

#clique #definitely #friends #good #good girls

Harry lost any sense of where they were: Streetlights above him, yells around him, he was clinging to the sidecar for dear life. Hedwig’s cage, the Firebolt, and his rucksack slipped from beneath his knees — “No — HEDWIG!” The broomstick spun to earth, but he just managed to seize the strap of his rucksack and the top of the cage as the motorbike swung the right way up again. A second’s relief, and then another burst of green light. The owl screeched and fell to the floor of the cage. “No — NO!” The motorbike zoomed forward; Harry glimpsed hooded Death Eaters scattering as Hagrid blasted through their circle. “Hedwig — Hedwig —” But the owl lay motionless and pathetic as a toy on the floor of her cage. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#hedwig #death

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. ↗

— Mark Twain

#i #make #me #mind #much

With six pieces of wood, I’m building a life, and my coffin.
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— Jarod Kintz

#carpentry #coffin #construction #death #life