#mortal

The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality. ↗

— George Santayana

#death #immortality #death

Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#immortality #life-and-death #sex #life

I was laughing at you because declarations of love amuse me, especially when unrequited," he said. -Jace pg. 41 ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#shadow-hunters #love

The smoke detectors began to ring; for they were battery-powered and thus still functioned, just as a record can still be played after the death of every member of the orchestra. ↗

— William T. Vollmann

#music #time #death

Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#mortals #beauty

We can buy you one of those books they have for little kids 'Timmy Has Two Dads'. Except I don't think they have one called 'Timmy Has Two Dads and One of Them Was Evil'. That part you're just going to have to work through on your own. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-lightwood #mortal-instruments #shadowhunters #simon-lewis #work

I will tell the stork-man. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#immortals #numair #immortality

Traded him for Alec," Clary said. "Not permanently" "No," said Jace. "Just for a few hours. Unless I don't come back. In which case, maybe he does get to keep Alec. Think of it as a lease with an option to buy." "Mom and Dad won't be pleased if they find out." "That you freed a possible criminal by trading away your brother to a warlock who looks like a gay Sonic the Hedgehog and dresses like the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?" Simon inquired. "No, probably not. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#isabelle-lightwood #jace-wayland #mortal-instruments #simon-lewis #child

Hope is the last thing that dies. Maybe because hope is one of those dratted things that is truly, honestly, genuinely immortal. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#immortal #immortality #inspirational

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal. ↗

— Richard Adams

#destruction #dies #his #ideas #immortal