#one

The casualty lists went on appearing for a long time after the Armistice - last spasms of Europe's severed arteries. ↗

It's like a memorial to Atlantis or Lyonesse: these are the stone buoys that mark a drowned world. ↗

#cemetery #death #lyonesse #tombstones #wrocław

When do you think people die? When they are shot through the heart by the bullet of a pistol? No. When they are ravaged by an incurable disease? No. When they drink a soup made from a poisonous mushroom!? No! It’s when… they are forgotten. Dr. Hiriluk (One Piece) ↗

— Eiichiro Oda

#forgotten #one-piece #death

You need to know what you are before you can become what you are supposed to be. In order to know what you are now, you must learn what you are going to be. ↗

— S.K.N. Hammerstone

#angels-and-demons #death #demons #skn-hammerstone #the-rift

It was that time of the century when the idea of a gentleman had almost become myth. The Great War had concussed the world. The unbearable news of sixteen million deaths rolled off the great metal drums of the newspapers. Europe was a crucible of bones. ↗

— Colum McCann

#death

These leaders are like the drug lords who ruled America’s ghettos in the crack age, men (and some women) interested in just two things: staying in power, and hoovering up enough of what’s left of the cash on their blocks to drive around in an Escalade or a 633i for however long they have left. ↗

— Matt Taibbi

#money #power #age

Dreams are like stars, you may never catch them but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny. ↗

— Liam Payne

#dreams

Someone like Billie Jean King is completely my idol. ↗

— Serena Williams

#completely #idol #jean #king #like

An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#bring #broader #contribute #experience #little

She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone. ↗