Holly

“I had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

“You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic. That's because it doesn't happen the way it does in books. It makes those chains of coincidence. That's what it is. It's like if you snapped your fingers and produced a rose but it was because someone on an aeroplane had dropped a rose at just the right time for it to land in your hand. There was a real person and a real aeroplane and a real rose, but that doesn't mean the reason you have the rose in your hand isn't because you did the magic.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

“Maybe we invented metaphor as a response to pain. Maybe we needed to give shape to the opaque, deep-down pain that evades both sense and senses.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.”
― Jeffrey Cranor, It Devours!