“We won’t grow old together, Cyrus. But can’t you feel this mattering? Right now?”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
“As long as the sheets of paper covered in my handwriting lie on this table, I can become a reality in someone's mind.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering, and that I was human after all.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“Love was a room that appeared when you stepped into it. Cyrus understood that now, and stepped.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
“We held the song’s preemptive nostalgia between us like a candle, swaying as its flame smocked the wick, our faces illuminated and flickering in it, that flame, yearning, idiot yearning, yearning so strong it bends you, buckles you, like waves or miracles.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
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