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You never pull the trigger until you know you can win. ↗

— Roger Ailes

#never #pull #trigger #until #win

There's an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer that I've been thinking about a lot while writing this essay. In it, Buffy sacrifices her own life to save her sister, and right before she does, she tells her sister that the hardest thing to do in the world is to live - ironic words coming from someone about to kill herself for the greater good. As I'm writing this, I just keep thinking that Katniss never gets to sacrifice herself. She doesn't get the heroic death. She survives - and that leaves her doing the hardest thing in the world: living in it once so many of the ones she loves are gone. ↗

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#hunger-games #death

Fear doesn't shut you down, it wakes you up ↗

— Veronica Roth

#factions #hard-life #inspirational #society #inspirational

God is constantly on the move. I cannot stay where I am and follow God at the same time; responding requires movement." -Hungry for God ↗

— Margaret Feinberg

#inspiring #inspirational

They had engaged in what could not be called treatment or even discussion, but open combat, the two of them a microcosm of the great war raging in the far distance: one side that desired autonomy, and the other that took independence as a sign of madness. ↗

— Kathy Hepinstall

#inspirational #war #inspirational

In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#fiction #supernatural #urban-fantasy #vampire #life

You know the Prince song where the girl's phone rings but she tells him, "whoever's calling couldn't be as cute as you?" I long to live out this moment in real life. ↗

— Rob Sheffield

#song-lyrics #life

So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And we all, every single one of us, no matter who we are and no matter what’s been taken from us or what poison we’ve internalized or how hard we’ve had to work to expel it – – we all get to dream. ↗

— N.K. Jemisin

#inspirational #myths #stories #writing #inspirational

Do not hide your light for fear of what others may think of you. Let it shine and be a reflection of what is possible. ↗

— Kristi Bowman

#light #possibility #reflection #inspirational

Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not. ↗

— Patti Smith

#poetry #life