“He was a good storyteller. It was obvious he liked the sound and play of words released into the air.”
― Call Down the Hawk
― Call Down the Hawk
“We used to hear the stars, too. When people stopped talking, there was silence. Now you could shut every mouth on the planet and there’d still be a hum. Air-conditioning groaning from the vent beside you. Semi trucks hissing on a highway miles away. A plane complaining ten thousand feet above you.
Silence is an extinct word.
It bothers you, doesn’t it?”
― Call Down the Hawk
Silence is an extinct word.
It bothers you, doesn’t it?”
― Call Down the Hawk
“There is plenty that can be said about your grandfathers' generation of men, but they wouldn't have had time to learn about everything in the world if the women of their generation hadn't taken care of everything else while they did.”
― Saker min son behöver veta om världen
― Saker min son behöver veta om världen
“You are made of dreams and this world is not for you.”
― Call Down the Hawk
― Call Down the Hawk
“And the sky was different. It had turned gray. Not the dull gray of high fall cloud cover, but rather a turbulent, molten gray that was really blue and purple and flint, all of it shifting and moving and swirling like the undulations of a snake. It had no eyes and no heartbeat and no body, but nonetheless one got the sense that the sky itself was sentient, even if it did not notice them below it.”
― Call Down the Hawk
― Call Down the Hawk
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