#day

You should have taken me with you," I whisper to him. Then I lean my head against his and begin to cry. In my mind, I make a silent promise to my brother's killer. I will hunt you down. I will scour the streets of Los Angeles for you. Search every street in the Republic if I have to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine. ↗

— Marie Lu

#june #legend #life

Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days. ↗

— Eric Brown

#conscious #conscious thought #days #few #find

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#gives #glut #information #itself #less

I count too heavily on birthdays, though I know I shouldn't. Inevitably I begin to assess my life by them, figure out how I'm doing by how many people remember; it's like the old fantasy of attending your own funeral: You get to see who your friends are, get to see who shows up. ↗

— Lorrie Moore

#life

Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#against #everyday #knows #man #over

Even if I say It'll be alright Still I hear you say You want to end your life And again we try To just stay alive Maybe we'll turn it around 'Cause it's not too late It's never too late ↗

— Three Days Grace

#life

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life. ↗

— Charles Scribner, Jr.

#commonplace #cultivated #essential #everyday #everyday life

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can. ↗

— Douglas Pagels

#life #new-day #page #seceret #story

The time is now, the person is you; better your life and become a name to conjure with in this day and age. ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#better #conjure #day #inspirational #leadership-torch

Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#days #end #life #lost #mockingjay