Sofimdi

“Or perhaps all adults feel like that at times. Like we’re just playing at being grown-up, but inside we’re still children, shuffling around in oversized clothes, wishing someone would tell us that monsters don’t exist.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

“But you’re curious, too,” she said. “Why do you say that?” “You guard the light. And light sees everything.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance

“...mirando fijamente la espiral de pétalos hasta que no pudo resistirse más y cayó hacia la corona blanca de un círculo incandescente, una congregación de llamas, un fuego tan puro que convertirse en cenizas resultaba un alivio, envuelto en una luz que lo consagraba no solo a él sino a todo lo que lo rodeaba, y unía a receptor y recibido.

Habrá un fuego que conoce tu nombre, y en presencia del fruto que asfixia, su llama oscura tomará posesión de cada parte de ti.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance

“That’s when you rise, finally. You rise out of the mud, in the rain, and you go back inside and suddenly everything gets really cold and calm. The answer doesn’t lie in your backyard because no one is going to come and save you even if you beg them to. Especially if you beg them to. You’re on your own, like you’ve always been on your own. You have to keep going forward, until you can’t go forward anymore.
You have to hang on. You’re almost there. You can make it to the end.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance