“a minute!” I felt that queasy sensation in my stomach that you always get when they dismiss you. Like someone sucking out your insides through your back. They have to say it three times to get rid of you, if you’re keen on sticking around. Usually you’re not. But this time I remained where I was, two glowing eyes in an angry fug of boiling smoke. “Do you know what you are asking”
― The Amulet of Samarkand
― The Amulet of Samarkand
“fingers”
― The Amulet of Samarkand
― The Amulet of Samarkand
“Did you know that when you choose to take someone off life support, they mute the heart monitor? That continual beeping you hadn’t realized had become your constant companion is suddenly gone. So, the room is completely silent when your whole reason for being slips from this Earth.”
― Beautifully Broken Pieces
― Beautifully Broken Pieces
“There was something about the air here. It was clean. Pure. And it had a fragrance to it I hadn’t encountered before. It was something the trees released into the atmosphere around them. I pulled a long breath into my lungs, holding it there as I stared out at the scene below. Craggy mountaintops still topped with snow shifted into heavily forested slopes which met up with a pristine lake. I sucked in another breath.”
― Beautifully Broken Pieces
― Beautifully Broken Pieces
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