Lee

“When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you keep.”
― Masha Gessen, Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot

“Sometimes, life is about what happens before death.”
― jennifer lynch

“I think babies cry when they’re born because they’re born with the knowledge of all the terrible shit that’s gonna happen to them. That’s why I never had kids. Every life is a death sentence. We just forget it later in life, like dreams we lose the second we wake up. Whether we worry about it or not, the shit’s still going to fly. The important thing is we’re here. At least for now.”
― Clive Barker, The Scarlet Gospels

“Rothman gave me another sharp look, and then he looked down at his desk. 'Lou' he said softly, 'do you know how many days a year an ironworker works? Do you know what his life expectancy is? Did you ever see an old ironworker? Did you ever stop to figure that there's all kinds of dying, but only one way of being dead?”
― Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside Me