“On a long enough timeline, endings are inevitable.
Tragedy is inevitable.
Fortunately, so is joy.”
― Bury Your Gays
Tragedy is inevitable.
Fortunately, so is joy.”
― Bury Your Gays
“Where were you twenty years ago, ten years ago? How dare you, how dare you come to me now, when I am this?”
― The Last Unicorn
― The Last Unicorn
“Then I will break the sky," he said.”
― The Vanished Birds
― The Vanished Birds
“When the dead men come, we are waiting. We have been waiting so long.
They must have convinced themselves they would never rot in the same dirt we do.”
― The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
They must have convinced themselves they would never rot in the same dirt we do.”
― The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
“I allow myself, for the gash of a moment, to remember what I once possessed: the abyssal ocean, the song in those depths like swimming down the black throat of a god; the searing colors moting my sisters' coils, sapphire and quartz crushed into constellations and prisms of incandescence spiraling through the dark, our tails in endless, restless motion; our mother's eyes colossal, phosphorescent; our father's ribs, still studded with our egg sacs, his heartbeat in our veins. I'd been happy there.”
― The Salt Grows Heavy
― The Salt Grows Heavy
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