"Losing a loved one has a way of revealing a too-simple truth: that time, as people often claimed but never heeded, really was precious."
- from "Lessons in Chemistry" by Bonnie Garmus
“I think I will ask god “why?” For the rest of my life… and never will I come to understand it. Even if god himself came in front of me and told me the reason, I don’t think I would accept it. Some loves are too hard to bear and with great love comes great pain and with great loss comes the greatest pain of all. If love could have saved you, you would have lived forever..”
Katniss actually said that if not for the existence of the Games and Panem's shitty state in general, that she, at 17 years old, could possibly be married and pregnant. Full-on teen mothering it with her dandelion in the spring if Panem could chill out for a sec and stop killing children. And then she proceeded to fantasize about Peeta and his child safe in the meadow. This thought alone gave her one of three nights of restful sleep without drugs post-Games during the series (the other two being when she was in Peeta's arms).
And yet when the Games did end permanently and Katniss indeed went ahead and married/committed to Peeta and had a family with him at about 30 years old, some people still did a surprise Pikachu face and complained it was out of character.
WHAT MORE DID SHE HAVE TO DO TO FORESHADOW THE ENDING?
我赢了。
I won.
- 我与他十年前海上一战,赢了他半招他却死了。
I fought him on the sea ten years ago and won by half a move, but he died.
-你说既然笛飞声没有死,那李相夷一定还活着对不对?
since di feisheng is not dead, it must mean that li xiangyi is still alive, right?
- 我快死了...你不惜一切代价却救不了我。// 好不容易救你出来,你可不能死。
I am dying...you have done everything no matter the costs yet you couldn't save me. // I saved you after much difficulty, you can't die.
君武勇之处,世所罕见,心悦诚服。
your valiance is unparalleled in this world. to which I am wholeheartedly convinced.
dihua + a matter of life and death | 莲花楼 mysterious lotus casebook
There was something eternal about loss, something endless. You could always lose the things you had, but you couldn't always get back the things you lost.
Anasai of Ryddingwood.
Each of her poems was written as an elegy. This was for her father. She left instructions; it can be read, but should not be spoken out loud, except when it was right to do so. She did not explain when it would be right to do so.
I'm quite serious. Who loses? Absent their worst instincts, their pride, their greed, their suspicion, in the light of pure reason, who says no to this? They'll be rich men in a safe place rather than dead thieves on a long rope.