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“Unfortunately, I’ve been alive a lot longer than you, and I’ve picked up some bad habits along the way. It’s not quite as easy for me to forgive people as it is for you, but I’m trying to be better.”
― The Last Murder at the End of the World
― The Last Murder at the End of the World
“I’d buzz the runway at ten feet and see Jasper rooted on his haunches following me with his eyes, and even at that speed I knew he was worried, and grieving that I might leave him like everything else had done, so I stopped.”
― The Dog Stars
― The Dog Stars
“I lift my head from the pillow I see the frost the moon. Lowering my head I think of home. Li Po’s most famous poem. Even then: long before before the end, the bottomless yearning. Almost never home, any of us.”
― The Dog Stars
― The Dog Stars
“Why were they fighting?” “We could always find a reason,” she replies. “We had different gods or different skin, or the fight had been going on so long we’d forgotten how to stop it. Somebody had something we needed, or we thought they were planning to hurt us.”
― The Last Murder at the End of the World
― The Last Murder at the End of the World
“She asks me to kill the spider.
Instead, I get the most
peaceful weapons I can find.
I take a cup and a napkin.
I catch the spider, put it outside
and allow it to walk away.
If I am ever caught in the wrong place
at the wrong time, just being alive
and not bothering anyone,
I hope I am greeted
with the same kind
of mercy.”
― Helium
Instead, I get the most
peaceful weapons I can find.
I take a cup and a napkin.
I catch the spider, put it outside
and allow it to walk away.
If I am ever caught in the wrong place
at the wrong time, just being alive
and not bothering anyone,
I hope I am greeted
with the same kind
of mercy.”
― Helium
J. Michael’s 2024 Year in Books
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