#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

If blue helmeted UN peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you, run. ↗

— Andrew Thomson

#peacekeeping #thought-provoking #un #thought-provoking

Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#feel #i #i feel #once #provoking

...the long train ride was like traveling through limbo. You weren't anywhere when you were on a train, she decided. You weren't where you had been, and you weren't yet where you were going. You were nowhere. It might be beautiful outside the window-and it was, she had sense enough to realize that-but it wasn't anywhere to her, just a scene passing by that was framed by the train window. (p160) ↗

— Katherine Paterson

#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