#ena

I saw his face change. His eyes widen. He lunged at me. I wouldn't let go. We stared into eachother's eyes and clawed at eachother's throats. As we rolled over the edge of the water tower and fell the whole way down, I was only thinking one thing ...Lena ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beautiful-creatures #beautiful-darkness #ethan #lena #love

Tombstones covered the dale, the smooth marble surfaces bright. She had spent days here as a teenager, though not out of any awareness of mortality. Like every adolescent, she intended to live forever. ↗

— Thomm Quackenbush

#cemetery #death #immortality #teenager #death

Nevješt sam razgovoru sa ženama, pogotovo sa ženama njene ljepote i njenih godina. Oko trideset, čini mi se. Mlade djevojke zamišljaju život i vjeruju riječima. Starice se boje smrti i s uzdahom slušaju o raju. Ovakve znaju vrijednost svega što gube i dobijaju, i uvijek imaju svoje razloge, koji mogu biti čudni, ali su rijetko naivni. Njihove zrele oči su slobodne i kad se obaraju, neugodno otvorene, i kad se skrivaju trepavicama. Najneugodnije je što znamo da one znaju više nego što pokazuju, i da nas mjere svojim neobičnim mjerilima, koja teško saznajemo. ↗

— Meša Selimović

#death

There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#tenacity #design

Katie purred in pleasure as she licked the beating vein in Jared’s neck. ↗

— Jodie B. Cooper

#elf #fantasy #funny #sidhi #teenage-love

The American people do not like privatization. They are afraid of the debt the president's willing to do. And they don't like benefit cuts. And everyone here should understand all 45 Senate Democrats are united. We are not going to let this happen. ↗

— Harry Reid

#american #american people #benefit #cuts #debt

Death gives a reason to our lives. More important then that, death creates a special value for time. If our time on earth was undetermined, life on its own wouldn't make any sense and probably we would still be living without clothes and with a spear on hand. Death is the most powerful agent in nature, it comes to take away the old and make space for the new. Our effort to avoid it and make our short stay here something slightly memorable is what motivates us. Life only exists because of death. ↗

— Marilena Chauí

#death

Hercules, huh? That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn, there he is. ↗

— Percy Jackson

#heroes-of-olympus #humor #mark-of-athena #percy-jackson #humor

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#brain #brain cells #cells #enables #end

Gates got up, but not fast or jerkily, with the same slowness that had always characterized him. He wiped the sweat off his palms by running them lightly down his sides. As though he were going to shake hands with somebody. He was. He was going to shake hands with death. He wasn't particularly frightened. Not that he was particularly brave. It was just that he didn't have very much imagination. Rationalizing, he knew that he wasn't going to be alive anymore ten minutes from now. Yet he wasn't used to casting his imagination ten minutes ahead of him, he'd always kept it by him in the present. He couldn't visualize it. So he wasn't as unnerved by it as the average man would have been. ("3 Kills For 1") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#death #death-penalty #death-sentence #electric-chair #execution