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“Gaunt was woven into everything he read, saw, wrote, did, dreamt. Every poem had been written about him, every song composed for him, and Ellwood could not scrape his mind clear of him no matter how he tried.”
― In Memoriam
― In Memoriam
“Even in the silence, I hope you will find the words you need to share.”
― Divine Rivals
― Divine Rivals
“He didn’t know what that meant. Pain was an unpredictable marker of damage.”
― In Memoriam
― In Memoriam
“That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
― Babel
― Babel
“He thought perhaps all the pain would sour the love, but instead it drew him further in, as if he were Marc Antony, falling on his own sword. And it was a magical thing, to love someone so much; it was a feeling so strange
and slippery, like a sheath of fabric cut from the sky.”
― In Memoriam
and slippery, like a sheath of fabric cut from the sky.”
― In Memoriam
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