That's life. You're born, you live, and you die. It is inevitable.

Tears are a fact of life, Tobirama-san; let them fall. They exist to release us from our pain.

Shimura Danzo. Ryuu’s cousin Kagami may have liked his teammate, but he’s dead, and Ryuu has no patience left to play nice with Shimura. The man overreaches with his connections to Hiruzen, and that nasty program he’s started within ANBU is a clear display of the man’s desperation for acknowledgement.

Shimura begs for the attention of a dead man even seventeen years after he’s died. It’s embarrassing.

Abused children stayed because the familiarity of the pain they suffered was less daunting than the unknown. Better the devil you knew, after all. But it didn’t make them less conscious of how easily things could change, how quickly peace could be broken.

pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Having values you’re willing to die for is not self-destructiveness.

God forbid Christopher, or any child, understand that when a door is closed it means privacy. It might as well have a glowing neon sign on it that says BANG ON ME AND DEMAND ATTENTION.

The rules are as follows: this is our house, we are the grown-ups, we get to have sex whenever we want, Christopher will deal with this fact as kids have since time immemorial — by pretending it isn’t happening — and anyway he sleeps like the dead and there are five walls between our rooms. It’s fine.

It’s definitely something about childhood homes, he thinks. Everything is too visceral and real and raw.

No place to pretend.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.

War does not end when the fighting does; people carry it with them and inflict it on their children.

War doesn’t determine who is right. It only determines who remains.

A staff is the weapon of the mage, the sword of the warrior. Kings of Avalon must be both, for magic without action is dust in the wind, as strength without wisdom is the ruin of nations.

"Father, give us courage to change what must be altered, serenity to accept what cannot be helped, and the insight to know the one from the other." - The serenity prayer as it was originally composed by Reinhold Niebuhr.

Compassion without conviction will get everyone hurt.

“We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.” Winston S. Churchill.

“What is it they call that stage in life when you start prioritizing sleep over sex?”
“Adulthood.”

It's easier to lead people to their deaths than it is to save them.

Suffering is not a talent. It is a test of talent, and it either defeats talent
or is defeated by it.

All beautiful poetry is an act of resistance.

Гриффиндор – это точно диагноз…
…Кто ж знал, что заболевание заразное.

"Death is easy," Kenshin says, just as quiet. "Life is as fragile as a fluttering swallowtail, and as precious." Violet looks up at me. "But a butterfly can only live on an open hand. Close your fist about it, and it will perish; that it will."

Belief doesn’t matter to the dead. You can’t believe in anything if you don’t survive.

ДОКТОР ЛОПАТИНА

Высшая степень безответственности — это неправильно расставленные приоритеты.

Love is a form of servitude, isn’t it? It’s putting others before yourself because they matter to you. If you can love someone without serving them, I’ve never figured out how. To look down on servants is to believe serving is in and of itself undignified and shameful. It would be very sad, I think, to love nothing enough that you’re willing to lower yourself for it.

No one is the sum of what another person thinks of them.

Free will is accepting that you get to make choices but you have to live with the consequences, too.

Loneliness is a disease that kills more surely than any other.

Sometimes it hurts worse not to let go. Love isn't guaranteed to be echoed back, no, but that doesn't mean anyone wants to stand around and suffer through the silence.

Running away is a desperate attempt we make to protect ourselves.

In lieu of
flowers, send
him back.
- Refusal to Mourn, Andrea Cohen

I’m just trying to tell you that Dean was left behind. And dammit if that boy hasn’t been the collateral damage his whole life.

The fools have no fucking idea that it’s always the quiet ones who snap the hardest and have the sharpest claws.

Resurrection isn’t always an expedient process.

Death ain’t proud. But he’s got power.
Wearing a dark suit and a darker glower
He drives a bone white cadillac
That should be dead for lack of gas.
He asks me if I want a ride.
I got nowhere to be. I hop inside.
When the red sun hits high noon
We pull over and park at a greasy spoon.
He eats fried pickles and I down a shake
And we both praise the fresh apple pie they bake
Still I don’t ask where my mother’s gone
Or wonder how soon it is I’ll be along.
“It ain’t easy being me,” he said,
“Shuttling across the souls of the dead,
Pulling them up from their dying bed,
And half of ‘em don’t even want to be led.
Even though you’re a young man
I figure you just might understand:
They say I’m in charge but it’s all a sham.
This ain’t personal and there ain’t no plan.”
So sons and wives and fathers die,
We cry our tears and ask god why,
But Death himself he makes no fuss,
Just wipes us off his shoulder, dust to dust.

You do not have a soul. You are a soul; you have a body.

As he heads for the shower, he wonders if it’s possible to sue fanfic writers for mental anguish.

Государства рождаются и умирают. Планета остается.

I want a magic wand that folds laundry. I'd say nudists have it right, but it's cold out.

Only suicide is suicide. Everything short of that is just something unpleasant you don’t want to do.

Grief is love with nowhere left to go.

Entitlement can breed the worst sorts of monsters.

We don’t think about it much, but the concept of a teenager is a modern one. It’s a luxury garnered by stability, allowing them more time to learn and grow and figure out who they are and who they are going to be.

Criminals were a resource that never ran out, purely by virtue of how easier it is to turn to crime than it is to eke out an honest living.

Have you seen Aizawa? That man worries so much. He’s like a feral alley cat trying to protect all of his kittens, but they keep running off in completely different directions.

It was circumstance, poor life choices, addictions, and lack of opportunity that made more villains than any natural inclination towards evilness.

You’re not a real American kid if your grandparents aren’t racist, right?

Ignorance isn't just something we have. Ignorance… it’s something we craft for ourselves.

Having an attempt interrupted against their will did not magically make suicidal people not want to die—often, feelings of failure, inadequacy, and guilt made the impulse stronger.

Lan Zhan is right, a garage is used primarily for storing stuff you never look at unless your spouse hisses at you that they have run out of space to hide their own stuff there.

fma: 319252, 20644262, 22212946, 7087441, 27470872
naruto: 21368578, 20922023, 25498318, 21122543, 27837148, 26225191,
bnha: 19334392, 13616124, 12442128, 22080895, 23880268, 24194488, 12765669, 13852215, 15998828, 17608844, 15051593, 21303995, 16170521, 13432656, 18293390, 22231744, 20644649, 25587019, 19319449, 24862198, 23791048, 25028176, 17265155, 15595548, 15189407, 23894383, 22038418, 25606882, 26616427, 21826759,
star wars: 18177863, 23975932, 7475079, 10129274, 23235199, 15185528, 24353887, 238162, 18206480, 27522955, 8270582, 29262768, 10304777, 7394932, 11021901, 26984272, 31232336, 27331213,
hp: 922767, 20049589, 15463833, 22230682, 10404927, 11745900, 16455875, 18493942, 19296382, 4762385, 25440826, 24987124, 23828404, 32897344,
guardian: 20165200, 16925445, 20604923, 26443918
khr: 19217965,
knb: 6687040,
mdzs: 23766619, 24169120, 25348240, 27244813, 23659249, 23636881, 29597418, 23026369, 18697189, 17651438, 26781784, 23164750, 15841593, 26241559, 30113247, 24476623, 26418985, 22925188, 17426555, 24227791, 23150869, 19227964, 22424494, 16494764, 19934053, 24903310, 27978588, 27745438, 23359486, 26958667, 21791407, 26996080, 27745438, 26180572, 25089847, 32185276, 31753450, 15314370, 35073949, 27595051, 25731781, 25739770, 31213433, 30839921, 26752732, 25017352, 33416869,

As flowers are grown by rain, so is the soul grown by war. From suffering comes compassion, from cruelty; mercy, from violence; peace. We are not born when we come into this world. We are born when we learn who we are, and we can only learn by being tested. Adversity is the crucible, honor is the way, and enlightenment the reward.

He hadn’t spent longer than a day in the True Mandalorian camp before Obi-Wan could see exactly why the rest of the galaxy found the Mando’ade - as they called themselves - so threatening. They didn’t distinguish between kings and pirates when it came to defending themselves. They killed everyone equally dead.

Love, after all, was not the shape of two bodies, love was the cry between two souls.

Nothing wrong with greed, but if it makes you stupid, you’ll only have less than what you started out with.

Jaster Mereel about Melida/Daan:

There’s nothing morally superior about leaving children to die alone.

There are no men, only overgrown boys.

One good act does not cancel years of pain.

What is a villain, if not a hero without a leash?

And people are afraid of “dangerous” quirks when humans have been killing each other since the dawn of time. Better weapons and superpowers just make it quicker—not easier.

— Дураков и подлецов надо учить.
— Помолчи! Тебе не платят за это денег! Это чужие дураки! Не наши!

That was the beauty of hospice care as opposed to traumatic battlefield medicine: the chance for a good death.

Destroying a culture was one of the most insidious ways to kill a people. Especially when you made celebrating that culture a punishable offense.

And it’s everyone’s God-given right to think laws are kind of stupid as long as they don’t break them. Or if they do, to have some kind of good reason. Though even then, you might not escape jail time.

A good marriage was more than having sex each day; it also meant being able to bare one’s soul and to be accepted for who you were.

You don’t fall in love with a specific gender. You fall in love with a soul.

No matter how far someone is, as long as you hold them in your heart, they’ll always be with you.

Sometimes you can’t pick the people who love you any more than you can change the minds of people who should love you but don’t.