#death

"I just developed a gun that shoots mustaches. Sometimes a disguise can be deadly, especially if it’s your love you’re trying to camouflage."

"Imitation [10w] Art imitates life.Life imitates art.I just imitate imitation."

"Genesis {Couplet} God spoke the world into existence, reifying an abstraction.Now the Creator's had second thoughts and wishes to utter a retraction."

"Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive."

"Democracy, Really [10w] A democracy is free to replace one tyranny with another."

"The Game Is Afoot God's buried eight jewels within my soul.Life's game is,'Remove each gem, yet find me whole.'The clue is,"Eight is one, and one is eight,no jewel's more precious,all equally great."

"I loved my mother too,' I said. 'I still do. That's the thing - it never goes away, even if the person does."

"The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying."

"I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life."

"He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as he looked at the emaciated body he felt a dim disquiet that was the ancestor of sadness."

"I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living."

"Doldrums People who live in the doldrumscan't throw caution to the wind."

"Embittered [10w] "His heart blistered like paint peeling from an old rig."

"Poet and the Fool {Couplet} {Limerick} The fool does his ego inflate,much like a poet does his oeuvre overrate.But the truth of the matter is that neither shit matters;harsh reality shall both nitwits deflate."

"Dysfunctional Love We split up not because he or she didn't love us,but because they did love us in the only way they knew how."

"Never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee."

"I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you."

"Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone."

"Spontaneous Gift Giving [10w] Learn to give gifts spontaneously accompanied by a love note."

"I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day."