#provoking

When someone dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all the nerves are still a little raw. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#thought-provoking

In the land of the blind, a one eyed man is king ↗

— Michael Grant

#thought-provoking

I missed the future. ↗

— John Green

#thought-provoking

Vicki M. Taylor's "Not Without Anna," is a gripping, hard-hitting, thought-provoking look at the escalating crisis of teen alcohol and drug abuse. Charlene Austin ↗

— Vicki M. Taylor

#hard-hitting #mystery-suspense #teen-alcohol-and-drug-abuse #thought-provoking #thought-provoking

Much time is spent on meaning while precious little time wasted has none! ↗

— M.B.JONES

#thought-provoking

With food still scarce,there was no longer a right to exist. You needed to earn your spot.  ↗

— Eric Liu

#food

‎"Tell me, sir, what is a butterfly?" "It's what you are meant to become. It flies with beautiful wings and joins the earth to heaven. It drinks only nectar from the flowers and carries the seeds of love from one flower to another. Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers. ↗

— Trina Paulus

#thought-provoking #beauty

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#feeling #give #love #pain #provoking

Don't use yesterday's state of mind, to make today's decision. ↗

— C. Nzingha Smith

#life #motivational #think #thought-provoking #inspirational

There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#violence #war #violence