Mark Haddon
- A heart attack - The Curius Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
A heart attack is when some of the muscles in the heart stop getting blood and die. There are two types of heart attack. The first is an embolism. That is when a blood clot blocks one of the blood vessels taking blood to the muscles in the heart. The other one is an aneurysm and that is when a blood vessel breaks and the blood doesn't get to the heart muscles because it is leaking.
Solitary Ruin
- Someone He Would Never Know
We used to joke that you weren't real - a figment of my imagination. Then I told you about my idea to write a book about it; a boy who suffered from schizophrenia, and a girl who was nothing more than a figment of his own imagination. Everything was so perfect. In the end though... I realized that you really were just a figment of my imagination. I realized that I was the boy, longing for someone he would never know.
- Olivia Rodrigo
- Traitor
You betrayed me, and I know that you'll never feel sorry for the way I hurt, yeah. You talked to her when we were together, loved you at your worst but that didn't matter. It took you two weeks to go off and date her, guess you didn't cheat, but you're still a traitor.
Ellen Bass
- The World Has Need of You
I can hardly imagine it as I walk to the lighthouse, feeling the ancient prayer of my arms swinging in counterpoint to my feet. It's a hard time to be human. We know too much and too little. Does the breeze need us? The cliffs? The gulls? If you've managed to do one good thing, the ocean doesn't care. But when Newton's apple fell toward the earth, the earth, ever so slightly, fell towards the apple as well.
Catherine M Valente
- The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
They are hungry, too, you know. At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone wants so much, more than they can stomach, but the appetite doesn't converse much with the stomach. Everyone is hungry and not only for food - for comfort and love and excitement and the opposite of being alone. Almost everything awful anyone does is to get those things and keep them.
Mary Oliver
- moments
There are moments that cry out to be fulfilled. Like, telling someone you love them. Or giving your money away, all of it. Your heart is beating, isn't it? You're not in chains, are you? There is nothing more pathetic than caution when headlong might save a life, even, possibly, your own.
Penn Jillette
- on religion
Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-o, and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have.
Carl Sagan
- Atheism
Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature.
Thomas Paine
- The bible
What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.
Melanie Martinez
- Teddy Bear
Stitched you up, put you together, with cotton and feathers. Gave you love, put my heart inside you, oh what could I do? When you started talking in your sleep, saying things you'd do to me, I didn't care. I wasn't scared. Now I'm finding knives under the sheets, crumbled photographs of me, I'm in despair, should I be scared? Teddy bear, you were my teddy bear. You were comforting and quiet, how did love become so violent. Everything was so sweet until you tried to kill me.
President Russell M. Nelson
- Because the evil one is ever at work
Because the evil one is ever at work, our vigilance cannot be relaxed, not even for a moment. A small and seemingly innocent invitation can turn into a tall temptation which can lead to tragic transgression. Night and day, at home or away, we must shun sin and hold fast that which is good.
Erwin Smith
- Erwin's last conversation with Levi
Everything I have done, I did thinking that this day would come. That someday... I would be able to check my answers. There were so many times that I thought it would be easier to just die. But then... the dream I shared with my father would flash through my head. And now... those answers are close enough to reach out and grab.
damon salvatore
- I just have to say it once
I just have to say it once. You just need to hear it. I love you, Elena. And it's because I love you that... I can't be selfish with you... Why you can't know this. I don't deserve you... But my brother does. God, I wish you didn't have to forget this. But, you do.
meredith grey
- the body
The body is a slave to its impulses. But the thing that makes us human is what we can control. After the storm, after the rush, after the heat of the moment has passed, we can cool off and clean up the messes we made. We can try to let go of what was.
The Daily Stoic
To a Stoic, we're only harmed when our character is affected. We're only harmed when we let go of what we believe in or when we drop our own standards. It might not be desirable to lose money or a friend, to fail at something or to be criticised, but how does that make us unfortunate? We haven't been deprived of our ability to respond. Our character remains intact.
The School of Life
- I'm not my body
We might consider our appearance as a banal and ridiculous actor to whom a malevolent casting agent had mysteriously decided to shackle us - and to whom we owe no particular favours or loyalty. We might think of our body as a taxi the universe has rudely shoved us into, not a vehicle we have carefully had the opportunity to choose - and to deserve. Out of such insubordination can come a liberating lightness.
Slavoj Žižek
- typing
In our daily lives, we pretend to desire things which we do not really desire. So that ultimately the worst thing that can happen is for us to get what we officially desire.
Yeshka
- Naming a fungus a sponge
In taxonomy, the name Spongiforma squarepantsii is not actually a species of sponge. It is the name of a fungus. The naming rules say that new names just have to sound Latin, not actually BE Latin. What is the point in coming up with a Latin sounding name of Sponge Bob Square Pants, if it isn't even for a species of sponge?
What is an Insider Threat?
- Insider Threat
A malicious threat to an organization that comes from people within the organization, such as employees, former employees, contractors or business associates, who have inside information concerning the organization's security practices, data, and computer systems.
Mark Twain
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Oh, it was no use to waste sense on her. Training - training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.
