The Unworthy
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Or maybe they’ll become dust and return to the earth, fertilizing it, nourishing the roots of a tree, and our story will be understood through the leaves that oxygenate the collapsed world.
“Eden would overtake the world and the mistake of man would be forgot.”
― The Vaster Wilds
― The Vaster Wilds
“And Eden would overtake the world and the mistake of man would be forgot.”
― The Vaster Wilds
― The Vaster Wilds
“Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things.”
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“For there was nothing here, no angels, no harps, no gates, no fires singeing the sins back into the sinner, no hungry spirits wandering the land and standing in the cold outside the firelight of the living. There was only wind drawing itself endlessly over the dark crowns of the pines, over the face of the water, over the mountains' icy peaks, over the great wide golden stretches of the teeming land. The wind passed, even as it is passing now, over all the people who find themselves so dulled by the concerns of their own bodies and their own hungers that they cannot stop for a moment to feel its goodness as it brushes against them. And feel it now, so soft, so eternal, this wind against your good and living skin.”
― The Vaster Wilds
― The Vaster Wilds
“Perhaps the eternal chain of being was not a chain at all, but a ring, one life not ending where the other begins but all souls overlapping.”
― The Vaster Wilds
― The Vaster Wilds
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