#livin

To live for the hope of something isn’t really living at all, and so, like a child putting away its toys and picking up a tool, he marched to Lyca’s bathroom, to shower off the stench of failure, soap up the death of hope, then wash away the ashes of his love for Daphne. ↗

— Mark A. Rayner

#ashes #child #crush #death #fail

Live from abundance; Utilize with economy; Share in advance. ↗

— Geoffrey M. Gluckman

#consumerism #joy #life #living #love

the living used to wonder what happened after death. She said that whole religions were born and evolved around this one simple uncertainty. ↗

— Carrie Ryan

#living #religion #uncertainty #wonder #death

It is love, the teeth told him, that resurrects life from death. Leave us here. Turn your head to the living. ↗

— Naomi Benaron

#love #death

New Yorkers love the bigness -- the skyscrapers, the freedom, the lights. But they also love it when they can carve out some smallness for themselves. When the guy at the corner store knows which newspaper you want. When the barista has your order ready before you open your mouth. When you start to recognize the people in your orbit, and you know that, say, if you're waiting for the subway at eight fifteen on the dot, odds are the redhead with the red umbrella is going to be there too. ↗

— David Levithan

#living #new-york-city #freedom

A piece of those who have past on before us, lives deep inside us all ↗

— Johanna Banda

#inspirational #to-the-living #death