#tune

They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#endurance

They all ordered massive plates of eggs, pancakes, and reindeer sausage, though Frank looked a little worried about the reindeer. "You think it's okay that we're eating Rudolph?" "Dude," Percy said, "I could eat Prancer and Blitzen, too. I'm hungry. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#son-of-neptune #eating

Is it fair your life burns so short and bright? Death had asked. "No such thing as fair," Frank told himself. "If I'm going to burn, it might as well be bright. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#frank-zhang #life #son-of-neptune #death

The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#soul #death

I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film - something like 'Titanic.' ↗

— Agnetha Faltskog

#film #i #like #sing #something

In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#luck #stupidity #beauty

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#fame #fortune #friends #good #good friends

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#age #being #congress #die #enough

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#fortune #good #good fortune #kinds #misfortunes

I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes. ↗

— Matt Cameron

#cautious #drummer #every #i #i think