#ya

The ox feels the yoke, but does the bird feel the weight of its wings? ↗

— Leigh Bardugo

#dream #dreams

In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, and they no longer felt that way. As humans grew stronger, I think that we became quite arrogant, losing the sorrow of 'we have no other choice.' I think that in the essence of human civilization, we have the desire to become rich without limit, by taking the lives of other creatures. ↗

— Hayao Miyazaki

#choice #creatures #hayao #hayao-miyazaki #human-civilization

Want to know the biggest lie ever written? 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. ↗

— Bart Yates

#brothers-bishop #nathan-bishop #love

I’ve been asking you to marry me since we met! What more do you want? ↗

— Chayada Welljaipet

#eternal-love #romance #romance-love #romance-novel #romance-novels

Three stupid pieces of chocolate can't mean a lifetime away from the people I love." Tears streamed down my face, and my body trembled. "I don't want to forget what I have here." "I won't let that happen to you." "I want it. The candy," I whispered, ashamed to admit it out loud and scared to death because the ache in my stomach was a hunger I'd never felt before. "Even though I know what it is, I can't stop thinking about it. ↗

— Cherie Colyer

#witches #ya #death

Let us see rather that like Janus—or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death—religion has two faces, one very friendly, one very gloomy... ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#religion #schopenhauer #yama #death

It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.... ↗

— Nicole Richie

#friendship #friendship

I knew they would kill me when they found out, but…” He struggled for words, releasing a sharp breath. “I think I realized that I would rather die because I betrayed them, than live because I betrayed you. ↗

— Marissa Meyer

#choice #emotions #friendship #love #scarlet

I was seeing the world for what it truly was—life and death irrevocably forged to one another for all of time. ↗

— Cassandra Giovanni

#death

It be more a feeling. Something swirls out in the beyond, something unnatural. It’s the reason so few venture to these worlds. The black spaces are a part of it, pieces unraveling pulling apart. We’ve come too far, waited too long to turn back now. Only death awaits us here. ↗

— Jennifer Silverwood

#qeya #sci-fi #ya-novella #death