“Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed.”
― Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
― Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
“...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.”
― Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
― Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
“All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.”
― Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
― Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
“A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
“When we're in a human body, we don't care about universal collapse - instead, we care only about a meeting of the eyes, a glimpse of bare flesh, the caressing tones of a loved voice, joy, love, light, the orientation of a house plant, the shade of a paint stroke, the arrangement of hair.”
― Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
― Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
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