A Life Well Lived Novels & Stories

a woman who will always love and be loved. There is no greater life to live.

But underneath all of those things, at the very centre of what the second book was, there was something simpler. "It says that what remains is everything," she said. "That the life you build after the fire — the ordinary, daily, imperfect, chosen life — is not the lesser thing. It's the whole thing. The fire was necessary and the fire was real and the fire cost everything it cost and it also produced this. The kitchen and the table and the mornings and the evenings and the children and the writing and the friendship and the marriage that is honest and real and ours." She paused. "It says that staying — in yourself, in your own life, in the truest version of who you are — is not the compromis

By fifteen, I’d taken a life and knew how to drown out their pleas as they begged for it. I did all dirty work. The dirtiest of all. I killed the wolves that disobeyed us, that stepped out of line. I believed in the pack and the revenge that was needed to get. I indulged in the lifestyle because it was a good one. I saw enough death within the family to know that life was fickle. So I indulged in the luxuries. If my life would be short, I intended to make the most of it. Until I made another mistake, meeting her. The love of my life. Fuck, she was a pretty little thing. She always had been. Her frosted gray eyes held your soul when she stared you down, like she could suck you in and never le

It is better that way; . . . . . This is life.

They don't know I have plans, lots and lots of plans. It's a different feeling when you have a new lease on life. It's as if the whole world has been opened up to you, or as they say, it's your oyster. Things I didn't pay much attention to before now have new meaning, and I've found a new joy in even the simplest of things, while some things have been harder to traverse.

Anna was confused and shocked as she didn’t expect things to turn out the way it did. Alex waved his hand and said, “Mr. Yowell, if you trusted me, I could have extended your life by another decade. It’s a pity what you had to go through just now. You can only live for five years at most even with the Life Pill. What I did gave you another day of living. Now, it all comes down to the concoction of the Life Pill.” “What? How did this happen?” “Ten years… now he’s not even going to live past five years!”

—for life. ***********END************

Adrian gazed at the silent crowd and said, "According to my instructor, the meaning of life is to stay alive. That's right. I'm going to tell you all the same thing today. The meaning of life is to stay alive." "Stay alive…" "Stay alive." "Stay alive!" Everyone raised their fist and chanted, their motivations and desire to live ignited. They wanted to live their lives with dignity.

She gave me a tired look. “ That is why we are craving for a home. I use to think we're existing because we are here to live and die later. But I realized, living while dying is possible. No one seems to understand us the way we understand ourselves. It's crazy to think we can give comforts to others we wish we could give to ourselves.”