“This is what the Problem means,” he went on. “This is the effect it has. Lives lost, loved ones taken before their time. And then we hide our dead behind iron walls and leave them to the thorns and ivy. We lose them twice over, Lucy. Death’s not the worst of it. We turn our faces away.”
― The Empty Grave
― The Empty Grave
“His rapier was at his belt, glittering as he swung. He reached down, ripped the sword clear.
I jumped over a slashing frond of plasm, spun round with the water bottle in my hand. I hurled it across to Lockwood.
George threw his rapier to me.
Watch this now. Sword and bottle, sailing through the air, twin trajectories, arching beautifully through the mass of swirling tendrils towards Lockwood and me. Lockwood held out his hand. I held out mine.
Remember I said there was that moment of sweet precision when we gelled perfectly as a team?
Yeah, well. This wasn't it.
The rapier shot past, missing me by miles. It skidded halfway across the floor. The bottle struck Lockwood plumb in the centre of his forehead, knocking him through the window.
There was a moment's pause.
'Is he dead?' the skulls voice said 'Yay! Oh. No, he's hanging onto the shutters. Shame. Still, this is defiantly the funniest thing I've ever seen. You three really are incompetence on a stick”
― The Hollow Boy
I jumped over a slashing frond of plasm, spun round with the water bottle in my hand. I hurled it across to Lockwood.
George threw his rapier to me.
Watch this now. Sword and bottle, sailing through the air, twin trajectories, arching beautifully through the mass of swirling tendrils towards Lockwood and me. Lockwood held out his hand. I held out mine.
Remember I said there was that moment of sweet precision when we gelled perfectly as a team?
Yeah, well. This wasn't it.
The rapier shot past, missing me by miles. It skidded halfway across the floor. The bottle struck Lockwood plumb in the centre of his forehead, knocking him through the window.
There was a moment's pause.
'Is he dead?' the skulls voice said 'Yay! Oh. No, he's hanging onto the shutters. Shame. Still, this is defiantly the funniest thing I've ever seen. You three really are incompetence on a stick”
― The Hollow Boy
“Vivere nell'inganno o essere ingannati è facile, e anzi è la nostra condizione naturale: nessuno va esente da questo e nessuno è stupido per questo, non dovremmo opporci più di tanto e non dovremmo amareggiarci. Tuttavia ci sembra intollerabile, quando alla fine sappiamo. Quello che ci pesa, il brutto della cosa, è che il tempo in cui crediamo quel che non era si trasforma in qualcosa di strano, fluttuante o fittizio, in una specie di incantamento o sogno che deve essere soppresso dal nostro ricordo; a un tratto è come se quel periodo non lo avessimo vissuto affatto, non è vero?, come se dovessimo raccontarci di nuoco la storia o rileggere un libro, e allora pensiamo che ci saremmo comportati in maniera diversa o avremmo impiegato in altro modo quel tempo che finisce per appartenere al limbo. Questo può provocare la nostra disperazione. E oltretutto quel tempo a volte non rimane nel limbo, ma all’inferno.”
― Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me
― Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me
“Death is fugitive; even when you're watching for it, the actual instant somehow slips between your fingers. You don't get that sudden drop of the head you see in movies. Instead you simply sit there, waiting for something to happen, and all at once you realize you've missed it.”
― The Whispering Skull
― The Whispering Skull
“You’re too smart not to know how rare, how special, what you two had was.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
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