#ya

A sematary," I say. "A what?" Viola says, looking round at all the square stones marking out their graves. Must be a hundred, maybe two, in orderly rows and well-kept grass. Settler life is hard and it's short and lotsa New World people have lost the battle. "It's a place for burying dead folk," I say. Her eyes widen. "A place for doing what?" "Don't people die in space?" I ask. "Yeah," she says. "But we burn them. We don't put them in holes." She crosses her arms around herself, mouth and forehead frowning, peering around at the graves. "How can this be sanitary? ↗

— Patrick Ness

#cemetary #cremation #dead #death #dying

Hati dan Otak kadang tidak pernah sejalan ↗

— Dvallen

#dvallen #life #life

Troubles are God setting the stage for greater blessings in your life. ↗

— John Yates

#john-yates #troubles #life

I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God. ↗

— Saint Patrick

#faithfulness #loyalty #perseverance #faith

Kau mungkin tidak percaya pada kehidupan, tapi aku tidak percaya pada kematian. ↗

— Yann Martel

#kehidupan #kematian #mati #percaya #life

His question is pretty dangerous for me to try to answer, so I don’t—it continues to hang out there like the stained underwear at a slumber party that goes unclaimed. ↗

— Jen Naumann

#humorous-quotations #ya #young-adult-fiction #zombies #life

I can't stop thinking about what he felt like against my body, against my lips. I can't remember anything else, anything before that. And I realize in this moment that I've finally done it. That horrible, awful thing I swore I would never do. The frosting. The cigarettes. The blue glass triangle. The shooting stars. The taste of his mouth on mine in the hall closet. Gone. All I can think about is Sam. Matt is – erased. My whole body is warm and buzzing. Sam is smiling next to me, because of me. And I've never felt so lonely in all my life. ↗

— Sarah Ockler

#grief #ya #life

Opinions vary. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#paranormal #philosophy #psychology #science-fiction #spiritual

My love life couldn't be more nonexistent if Julius was all all-girls' boarding school with a moat full of alligators around it. ↗

— Flynn Meaney

#love #romance #teen #teenage-love #ya

Lying there in bed, dangling in a zone somewhere between sleep and consciousness, he was overcome by a strange feeling: that he was losing control of his life, and for the first time in recent years was unsure of the direction it was taking him." Carl Dias reflects on life in RACING WITH THE RAIN ↗

— Ken Puddicombe

#carl-dias #guyana #racing-with-the-rain #life