Slowly Dying Quotes

“Chin up, and we'll drown a little slower.”
― LeAnne Mechelle, Write like no one is reading 2

“Like a long black hood or so high coming down over your head, too slow to measure or even to notice. And each successive layer of the hood is only mesh, perfectly see-through...bust as they fold one over the other (over the other, over the other), your world gets more dim, dull, chill, and awful, almost beyond endurance. "Normal" getting worse, always and steadily, as "normal" is--so often--wont to do”
― Gemma Files, We Will All Go Down Together

“In this place that we live--my West, my father's North, and my mother's new hemisphere--rabbits in a burning field of grass can catch on fire. They run to a clear place where there is no fire, but, in doing so, light it up because their fur is burning. That way, in trying to save themselves, they spread the fire more. . . . And it speeds to everyone.”
― Alberto Alvaro Ríos, Capirotada: A Nogales Memoir