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Paradise Rot
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Outside the house the world was dry and sharp and normal, and it didn’t quite correspond with what seemed to grow between the brewery walls: something moist, skinless and quiet.
“But when I think of you, I want to be alone together. I want to strive against and for. I want to live in contact. I want to be a context for you, and you for me.
I love you, and I love you, and I want to find out what that means together.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
I love you, and I love you, and I want to find out what that means together.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
“Every thirty days, I say to myself that a month has gone by, but those are mere words, they don’t really give me time. Perhaps you never have time when you are alone? You only acquire it by watching it go by in others,”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“Journeys end in lovers meeting; I have spent an all but sleepless night, I have told lies and made a fool of myself, and the very air tastes like wine. I have been frightened half out of my foolish wits, but I have somehow earned this joy; I have been waiting for it for so long.”
― The Haunting of Hill House
― The Haunting of Hill House
“We had survived the prison, the plain and the loss of all hope, but the women had discovered that survival is no more than putting off the moment of death”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“Hunger, Red—to sate a hunger or to stoke it, to feel hunger as a furnace, to trace its edges like teeth—is this a thing you, singly, know? Have you ever had a hunger that whetted itself on what you fed it, sharpened so keen and bright that it might split you open, break a new thing out? Sometimes I think that’s what I have instead of friends.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
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