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“I wanted to explain myself to myself in an understandable way. I gave shape to my fears and made excuses. I varied my velocities, watched myselves sleep. Something's not right about what I'm doing but I'm still doing it-- living in the worst parts, ruining myself. My inner life is a sheet of black glass. If I fell through the floor I would keep falling.
The enormity of my desire disgusts me.”
― War of the Foxes
The enormity of my desire disgusts me.”
― War of the Foxes
“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“Nothing is immune to Time. Not even eternity.”
― The Sandman Presents: The Furies
― The Sandman Presents: The Furies
“Maybe the centipede in the cellar
knows with its many disgusting legs
why I am sad. No one else does.”
― When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
knows with its many disgusting legs
why I am sad. No one else does.”
― When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
“Death has a body like a model, the clothes of a poet and the smile of your best friend. She wears a top hat for fun, her ankh necklace for power, and carries a big black umbrella for travelling to the 'sunless lands.' I wonder what she smells like? I'm sure it's fresh and clean and her laugh must be rinkly or maybe it's warm and chuckly, but whatever it is, Death laughs a lot.
We talk about the 'miracle of birth' but what about the 'miracle of death'? We have the science of death pretty much figured out, but death's magic and inevitability have been feared and ignored for a long time now.
What if Death is a person?”
― Death: The Time of Your Life
We talk about the 'miracle of birth' but what about the 'miracle of death'? We have the science of death pretty much figured out, but death's magic and inevitability have been feared and ignored for a long time now.
What if Death is a person?”
― Death: The Time of Your Life
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Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Memoir, Science fiction, Suspense, Spirituality, and Young-adult
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