“One way to pick a future is to believe it’s inevitable.”
― One
― One
“I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day.
A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.”
― The World and Other Places: Stories
A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.”
― The World and Other Places: Stories
“Fear not, nor be dismayed at the appearance that is darkness, at the disguise that is evil, at the empty cloak that is death, for you have picked these for your challenges. They are stones on which you choose to whet the keen edge of your spirit.”
― One
― One
“When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.”
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“You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”
― Written on the Body
― Written on the Body
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