#z

Summertime is always the best of what might be. ↗

— Charles Bowden

#juarez #mexico #seasons #summer #death

Wands are only as powerful as the wizards who use them. Some wizards just like to boast that theirs are bigger and better than other people's. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death

[Ella Baker]'s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership... 'She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone will rise. Someone will emerge'. It was an attitude Baker shared with some of the older women in the movement. ↗

— Gail Collins

#ella-baker #feminism #grassroots-organizing #leadership #naacp

Pain was good. If I hurt, it meant I wasn't dead. ↗

— Kristin Cast

#zoey-redbird #death

Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death. ↗

— John Green

#death

It's a little hard not to worry when my best friend keeps on dying. ↗

— Kristin Cast

#friendship #zoey-redbird #death

He's waiting for yu, young queen.' Shocked, I stared at Seoras. 'Heath?' The Warrior's look was wise and understanding - his voice gentle. 'Aye, yur Heath probably does await you somewhere in the future, but it is of your Guardian I speak. ↗

— P.C. Cast

#future #guardian #heath-luck #heaven #house

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#continues #death #installment #installment plan #men

Only death will take me away from you, vampire girl," he whispered. "And even then, I'll watch over you from wherever I end up. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#zeke-crosse #death

Sorry to hear about your Dad." He shrugged. "He was seventy, and we always told him fast food would kill him." "Heart attack?" "He was hit by a Pizza Express truck. ↗

— J.A. Konrath

#fast-food #humor #pizza #death