Death

“I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.” 

― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery 

“I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend. The kind of person you can tell anything to, no matter how bad, and they'll still love you, because they know you. I wanted to go with her. I wanted her to notice me. And then she stopped walking. Under the moon, she stopped. And looked at us. She looked at me. Maybe she was trying to tell me something; I don't know. She probably didn't even know I was there. But I'll always love her. All my life.” ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 8: Worlds' End 

“People living deeply have no fear of death.” 

― Anaïs Nin 

“And what would humans be without love?" RARE, said Death.” 

― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery 

“It's better to burn out than to fade away.” 

― Neil Young 

“I'm gonna kill him," Eve said, or at least that was what it sounded like filtered through the pillow. Stake him right in the heart, shove garlic up his ass, and-and-"

And what?" (Michael)

When did you get home?" Claire demanded.

Apparently just in time to hear my funeral plans. I especially like the garlic up the ass. It's...different.”

 ― Rachel Caine, Feast of Fools 

“Ginny, listen...I can't be involved with you anymore. We've got to stop seeing each other. We can't be together." "It's for some stupid noble reason isn't it?" "It's been like...like something out of someone else's life these last few weeks with you. But I can't...we can't...I've got to do things alone now. Voldemort uses people his enemies are close to. He's already used you as bait once, and that was just because you were my best friend's sister. Think how much danger you'll be in if we keep this up. He'll know, he'll find out. He'll try and get me through you." "What if I don't care?" "I care. How do you think I'd feel if this was your funeral...and it was my fault...” 

― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 

“Here lies Dobby, a free elf.” 

― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 

“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” 

― Thomas Campbell 

“The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.” 

― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire 

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Brillian JK rowling at Harry Potter

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” 

― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” 

― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” 

― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.” 

― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” 

― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.” 

― J.K. Rowling 

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” 

― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” 

― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.” 

― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 

“Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.” 

― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 

“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.” 

― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 

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We have come from God

“We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil.” 

― J.R.R. Tolkien 

“Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?" ...Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, "We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay.”

 ― Charles M. Schulz

“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.” ― Albert Camus 

“Whether you live to be 50 or 100 makes no difference, if you made no difference in the world.” 

― Jarod Kintz, Great Listener Series Mute Women 

“Time is a game played beautifully by children.” 

― Heraclitus, Fragments 

“I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.” 

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged 

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” 

― Gabriel Garcí​a Márquez 

“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them” 

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 

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OCTOBER pt2

“The crickets still sing in October. And lilly, she's trying to bloom. Tho she's resting her head on the shoulder of death, she still shines by the light of the moon.” ― Kevin Dalton 

“He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother's house many years ago and heard the wind and saw the empty trees. It had made him cry, without a reason. And a little of that sadness returned each year to him. It always went away with spring. But, it was a little different tonight. There was a feeling of autumn coming to last a million years. There would be no spring. ("The October Game")” 

― Ray Bradbury, Long After Midnight 

“After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth...The maple tree in front of the doorstep burned like a gigantic red torch. The oaks along the roadway glowed yellow and bronze. The fields stretched like a carpet of jewels, emerald and topaz and garnet. Everywhere she walked the color shouted and sang around her...In October any wonderful unexpected thing might be possible.” 

― Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond 

“She raised a sharp eyebrow at him. "Vlad, no offense, but look at you. If you're not a vampire, you're clearly the most anemic goth I've ever seen."... "We believed you. Because that's what friends do." pg267 October to Vlad” 

― Heather Brewer, Twelfth Grade Kills 

“Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.” 

― Nelson Algren, Chicago: City on the Make 

“Autumn flings her fiery cloak over the sumac, beech and oak.” 

― Susan Lendroth, Ocean Wide, Ocean Deep 

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OCTOBER

“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” 

― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables 

“First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.” 

― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes 

“There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir: We must rise and follow her, When from every hill of flame She calls, and calls each vagabond by name.” 

― William Bliss 

“The wind outside nested in each tree, prowled the sidewalks in invisible treads like unseen cats. Tom Skelton shivered. Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows' Eve. Everything seemed cut from soft black velvet or gold or orange velvet. Smoke panted up out of a thousand chimneys like the plumes of funeral parades. From kitchen windows drifted two pumpkin smells: gourds being cut, pies being baked.” 

― Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree 

“October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!” 

― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments 

“October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!”

 ― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments 

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GROW UP

"I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another. It's been going on for quite some time now, without me knowing it. I've found that growing up can mean a lot of things. For me, it doesn't mean I should become somebody completely new and stop loving the things I used to love. It means I've just added more things to my list. Like for example, I'm still beyond obsessed with the winter season and I still start putting up strings of lights in September. I still love sparkles and grocery shopping and really old cats that are only nice to you half the time. I still love writing in my journal and wearing dresses all the time and staring at chandeliers. But some new things I've fallen in love with -- mismatched everything. Mismatched chairs, mismatched colors, mismatched personalities. I love spraying perfumes I used to wear when I was in high school. It brings me back to the days of trying to get a close parking spot at school, trying to get noticed by soccer players, and trying to figure out how to avoid doing or saying anything uncool, and wishing every minute of every day that one day maybe I'd get a chance to win a Grammy. Or something crazy and out of reach like that. ;) I love old buildings with the paint chipping off the walls and my dad's stories about college. I love the freedom of living alone, but I also love things that make me feel seven again. Back then naivety was the norm and skepticism was a foreign language, and I just think every once in a while you need fries and a chocolate milkshake and your mom. I love picking up a cookbook and closing my eyes and opening it to a random page, then attempting to make that recipe. I've loved my fans from the very first day, but they've said things and done things recently that make me feel like they're my friends -- more now than ever before. I'll never go a day without thinking about our memories together.” 

― Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift

"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” 

― C.S. Lewis

"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.” 

― Anne Frank

"My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.” 

― Jodi Picoult

"Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.” 

― Maya Angelou

"When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.” 

― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

"It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.” 

― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

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change will not come if we wait other people

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The roundound pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” 

― Apple Inc.

"Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.” 

― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

"Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” 

― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” 

― Barack Obama

 "We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.” 

― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

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