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The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity, —it’s envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.
— Piscine Molitor Patel, Life of Pi, Yann Martel (via nubivagantmusings)
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Beatrice: I should tell one person at least, so that the experience doesn’t vanish without having been put into words. And who else but you? (Pause.)
— Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
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It is the poet’s duty to tell of our most difficult times with equal honesty as we tell of the gay times, for only in coming through the darkest moments, sometimes is light found.
— The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
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Believe that when I am once a man’s friend I am always so — nor is it so very hard to bring me to it. And though a man may enjoy himself in being my enemy, he cannot make me his for longer than I wish.
— The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
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We are not special.
We are not crap or trash, either.
We just are.
We just are, and what happens just happens.
And God says, “No, that’s not right.”
Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can’t teach God anything.
God asks me what I remember.
I remember everything.
— Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk, 1996
