Tawny

“Be it man or machine, Victor thought, to love something meant loving the ghost inside, to be haunted by it.”
― T.J. Klune, In the Lives of Puppets

“Some days you are so alone, you think you will collapse into a hard and dense rock. You tell him that you wish things were different. That you feel as though you have a sack over your shoulder, heavy and dragging, but you have no idea what’s inside the sack, or who gave it to you. It’s just there. It’s just yours. And you regret so many things. You’ve hurt people, you’ve embarrassed them, you’ve embarrassed yourself.”
― Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

“You're a ghost in my head. I want to know why. I want to know you.”
― T.J. Klune, In the Lives of Puppets

“Keema stepped toward Jun, and touched him. His arm, his bony cheek, his lips, and Jun received that touch as he would the water from a waterfall, with eyes closed and face upturned. "You feel like the sun," Jun said.”
― Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water