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“One day, the one you love will tear your throat out. One day, the sun and the moon will fall to their wolves. The Earth will flash to clinker in the red-giant rush of stellar evolution, the universe drift to static and silence resolved, and the gods walk quietly across wind-hushed Iðavöllr.”
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“I have found time and time again that people's childhood comfort book prefigures, to an almost comical degree which they cannot always see, their adult mission in life.”
― The Bookseller's Tale
― The Bookseller's Tale
“I am a dark clodling deep inside the coddling sea,
thick with drifts of tiny dead: fish, gribkin, sponge.
Cheek and jowl a soupy seeping is I,
a lulled, dull clump and wondrous lumping,
quiet, secrety.”
― Strange Shape
thick with drifts of tiny dead: fish, gribkin, sponge.
Cheek and jowl a soupy seeping is I,
a lulled, dull clump and wondrous lumping,
quiet, secrety.”
― Strange Shape
“That's what my book was about. How if you change the way ahead, the way behind changes too."
"Seems kind of obvious,” she said.
It seemed so when she said it; it was obvious, or at least a commonplace. More than one history of the world; one for each of us. A bright moment arriving when you choose a new way into the future, which illuminates a new past, the backward way, at the same time. Everybody knows. It had been true all along.”
― Endless Things
"Seems kind of obvious,” she said.
It seemed so when she said it; it was obvious, or at least a commonplace. More than one history of the world; one for each of us. A bright moment arriving when you choose a new way into the future, which illuminates a new past, the backward way, at the same time. Everybody knows. It had been true all along.”
― Endless Things
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