"People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their hearing, their sight—at least as the normally experienced them."
Ann Brashares
Inspiration
Death is fugitive; even when you're watching for it, the actual instant somehow slips between your fingers. You don't get that sudden drop of the head you see in movies. Instead you simply sit there, waiting for something to happen, and all at once you realize you've missed it.
Jonathan Stroud
Inspiration
A memory can taint your dreams.
Abilash Balan
"Non fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place."
Justin Alcala
"I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled."
Juliet Marillier
"Are you sleepwalking?' A voice asked behind me. 'I was testing dorm security,' I said. 'It sucks."
Anonymous
"Death is the night sky, the background against which the fleeting fireworks of life are displayed, an empty stage upon which the drama of life is played."
James Rozoff
Inspiration
Why come back to this empty house, and this Manila with a strange face; the one I never knew? All those lonely islands. They will keep afloat without me.
V.J. Campilan
"When I can no longer create anything I'll be done for."
Coco Chanel
"The path to paradise begins in hell."
Dante Alighieri
"Is that Disney magic of pixie magic?' I kid... 'It is life magic'."
Carrie Jones
"This life is like a roller-coaster; once you are strapped-in and the ride has started, you aren't getting off."
Anonymous
"When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman."
Betty Friedan
"Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read."
James Altucher
Inspiration
I find myself enjoying being alone a lot of the time, people come and people go and you have to find a way to be ok with both.
Nikki Rowe
"As Richard has pointed out on several occasions, I subscribe to the irregular verb theory of life: I am a trained investigator, you have a healthy curiosity, she/he is a nosy parker."
Val McDermid
"Destiny is not what you become but what you do with it."
Anonymous
"Each of us does in effect strike a series of 'deals' or compromises between the wants and longings of the inner self and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain limitations."
Maggie Scarf
Inspiration
...After all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?