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“Some people say that your life flashes before your eyes in moments like this. But for me, all the stuff I haven’t done flashes before mine.”

Book:On the Come Up

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“My eyes blinked like a camera shutter clicking through the frames of my life, except the images were mismatched and haphazard: a ragged-looking doll with a rose-colored dress; crocheted white baby mittens, slightly unraveled; a row of tulips, vibrant red; Rex's smile; a rusty weather vane whirling in the wind. My eyelids fluttered, fighting to remain open, but when they closed, the welcoming image that waited beckoned me to stay, promising to give me the comfort, the peace I longed for. The camellias. I could see them, seemingly endless rows of big, bushy green trees with waxy leaves and showy flowers the size of saucers. Pinks, reds- bursting into bloom, as if they'd been painted by the Queen of Hearts.”

Images Camellia Addison Sinclair Life Flash Before My Eyes

Book:The Last Camellia

Source: The Last Camellia

“I couldn't exactly blame Jane Austen for being a romantic. What the hell else was there to do back then for fun?”

Humor Jane Austen Olden Days Fiona

Book:A Match Made in High School

Source: A Match Made in High School

“Being a woman was a trap. Something would bring you down before you were twenty-three. The only time the world shows you any favor, or cuts you any slack, is during that very brief period of courtship where the world is trying to fuck you for the first time.”

Womens Rights Gender Roles Gender Stereotypes Olden Days

Book:The Lonely Hearts Hotel

Source: The Lonely Hearts Hotel

“We'll make it a blowout like in the olden days." "When dinosaurs roamed the earth?" Teddy asked. "Exactly," Dad said. "When dinosaurs roamed the earth and your mom and I were young.”

Humor Young Dinosaurs Olden Days

Book:If I Stay

Source: If I Stay

“In the olden days it was easy to make a television work.You plugged an aerial cable into the back, then bashed the top with your fist until, eventually, Hughie Green stopped jumping up and down.”

Tv Olden Days Aerial Hughie Green

Book:Is It Really Too Much To Ask?

Source: Is It Really Too Much To Ask?

“Dad almost delighted at how the graves had resisted, how they had had to bring caterpillar tractors, how the chains had burst, but in the end they had succeeded, they had to succeed in tearing those old times out of the ground...”

Life Death Resistance Olden Days

Author:Bohumil Hrabal

“I learned that to harden your heart was not the same as not caring.”

H Is For Hawk

Author:Helen Macdonald

“You become a changed person when you face the reaper and deny him your soul.”

Death Change Death And Dying Reaper Grim Reaper Killmore

Book:Killmore

Source: Killmore

“Lee's face changed and his eyes became warm. "Are we together?" Oh crap. I started thinking fast. "We're not not together." "I'm not entirely certain what to do with that." I explained, "We're not exactly together and were not not together. We're in together limbo. We're test driving together to see if we want to buy it." "We go to your dad's late, I could convince you to buy it.”

Buy It Together Limbo

Book:Rock Chick

Source: Rock Chick

“It is as if families on the run are shattered by something other than just grenades. The flight and fear tears us apart and those parts land in all kinds of places - we don't even know where. But we always try to find them afterwards.”

Refugees Families Henning Mankell The Shadow Girls

Book:Tea-Bag

Source: Tea-Bag

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