“How is it that the world keeps going, breathing in and out unchanged, while in my soul there is a permanent scattering?”
― Notes on Grief
― Notes on Grief
“I'll be all the poets, I'll kill them all and take each one's place in turn, and every time love's written in all the strands it will be to you.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
“To paraphrase a prophet: Letters are structures, not events. Yours give me a place to live inside”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
“I am writing about my father in the past tense, and I cannot believe I am writing about my father in the past tense.”
― Notes on Grief
― Notes on Grief
“A thing like this, dreaded for so long, finally arrives and among the avalanche of emotions there is a bitter and unbearable relief. It comes as a form of aggression, this relief, bringing with it strangely pugnacious thoughts. Enemies beware: the worst has happened. My father is gone. My madness will now bare itself.”
― Notes on Grief
― Notes on Grief
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