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c8ac0b8
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A pity to survive night flights over St. Georges Channel only to crack my skull falling from a ladder.
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ladder
fall
pity
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Eoin Colfer |
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ca4e706
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"All's well that ends well.' 'Assuming there's an end somewhere,' Aomame said. Tamaru formed some short creases near his mouth that were faintly reminiscent of a smile. 'There has to be an end somewhere. It's just that nothing's labeled "This is the end." Is the top rung of a ladder labeled "This is the last rung. Please don't step higher than this'?" Aomame shook her head. 'It's the same thing,' Tamaru said. Aomame said, 'If you use common sense and keep your eyes open, it becomes clear enough where the end is.' Tamaru nodded. 'And even if it doesn't' -- he made a falling gesture with his finger -- 'the end is right there."
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hopelessness
suicide
hope
eyes-wide-open
keep-going-keep-your-eyes-open
ladder
common-sense
endings
end
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Haruki Murakami |
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8ee5af5
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And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an endless ladder by which no height is ever climbed till the last unreachable rung is mounted? For height leads on to height, and there is not resting-place among them, and rung doth grow upon rung, and there is no limit to the number.
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mankind
want
greed
humanity
learning
life
endeavors
things-that-matter
ladder
materialism
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H. Rider Haggard |
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7a7356d
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What sucked was that her room was on the fourth floor of a four-story house because she hated walking past every other room on her way in and out. She was like a latter-day Rapunzel except her hair was only a few inches below her shoulders, slightly fried, not all that blond, and furthermore, who the hell was ever going to climb up to give her a hand? The guy in the wheelchair from school? What she -- and Rapunzel, frankly -- needed was a decent ladder.
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ladder
rapunzel
rooms
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Francine Pascal |