English Club

“Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just...something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day, of working around it. Respecting and remembering and getting on at the same time. ”

― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

"So don't be frightened, dear friend, if a sadness confronts you larger than any you have ever known, casting its shadow over all you do. You must think that something is happening within you, and remember that life has not forgotten you; it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall. Why would you want to exclude from your life any uneasiness, any pain, any depression, since you don't know what work they are accomplishing within you?"

― Rainer Maria Rilke

Respect

"My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company."

—Friedrich Nietzsche

I just cannot love this quote more than i already do

"When we graduate, my friend and I want to start an organization to teach people in rural areas how to read. I was volunteering at a clinic last year, and I saw a child die of Cholera because the mother couldn't remember the prescription instructions."

(Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo)

"Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth,and I did not know which one was heavier. Which one took the most strength to carry around? It was a ridiculous question, though, because once you know the truth, you can't ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now."

'You know, some things don't matter that much, Lily. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting person's heart - now, that matters. The whole problem with people is ... they know what matters, but they don't choose it. You know how hard that is, Lily? I love May, but it was still so hard to choose Caribbean Pink. The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.'

Sweet, tiny Prim who cried before she even knew the reason, who brushed and plaited my mother's hair before we left school. Who still polished my father's shaving mirror each nifgt because he'd hated the layer of coal dust that settled on eberything in the Seam.
-Hunger Games-

“The fact was they could not communicate with words, and it was a fact that led undoubtedly to much misunderstanding. Yet did it not also lead to a peculiar intimacy? …Do words say everything? Can words say anything? Do not words destroy the symbol that lies beyond the reach of words?”

— Virginia Woolf, Flush

They say that war is death's best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view on that one. To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible. He stands over your shoulder repeating one thin, incessantly: 'Get it done, get it done.' So you work harder. You get the job done. The boss, however, does not thank you. He asks for more.

sometimes the human race likes to crank things up a little.They increase the production of bodies and their escaping souls. A few bombs usually do the trick. Or some gas chambers, or the chitchat of faraway guns. If none of that finishes proceedings, it at least strips people of their living arrangements, and I witness the homeless everywhere. They often come after me as I wander through the streets of molested cities. They beg me to take them with me, not realizing I’m too busy as it is. “Your time will come,” I convince them, and I try not to look back. At times I wish I could say something like, “Don’t you see I’ve already got enough on my plate?” but I never do.
_ Death speaking
A recommended book