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Have never struggled as badly with my sobriety than today. Thinking of all those in the same boat, picturing them carrying lanterns, us guiding each other through, etc.
“It was not just because he was old, and looked old to them, but because he was a pensioned ghost from the strange past, a pointless survivor, an old soldier of forgotten wars. A remnant, with a torn gansey for a soul.”
― Old God's Time
― Old God's Time
“Not so many years ago the parish priest would not have let her be buried in hallowed ground. Not any fucking more. No fucking priests allowed instead.”
― Old God's Time
― Old God's Time
“No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying.”
― Old God's Time
― Old God's Time
“People endured horrors, and then they couldn’t talk about them. The real stories of the world were bedded in silence.”
― Old God's Time
― Old God's Time
“To him this was the whole point of retirement, of existence – to be stationary, happy and useless.”
― Old God's Time
― Old God's Time
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