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“I have become a collapsing star, pulling everything around it, even the light, into an ever-expanding void.”
― The Garden of Evening Mists
― The Garden of Evening Mists
“Feel your body expanding as you breathe: that is where we live, in the moments between each inhalation and exhalation.”
― The Garden of Evening Mists
― The Garden of Evening Mists
“Maybe life is all about twirling under one of those midnight skies,
cutting a swathe through the breeze
and gently closing your eyes.”
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cutting a swathe through the breeze
and gently closing your eyes.”
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“Yggdrasil is the Tree of Life,’ he says. ‘Its branches cover the world and stretch up to the sky. But it has only three roots. One is submerged in the waters of the Pool of Knowledge. Another in fire. The last root is being devoured by a terrible creature. When two of its roots have been consumed by fire and beast, the tree will fall, and eternal darkness will spread across the world.”
― The Garden of Evening Mists
― The Garden of Evening Mists
“I know a girl from whose body sunbeams rose to the clouds as if they’d fallen from the sun.
Her laugh was like a bangle of bells.
“Your hair is wet,” I told her one day, “Did you take a bath?”
“It is dew!” she laughed, “I’ve been lying in the grass. All morning long, I lay here waiting for the dawn.”
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Her laugh was like a bangle of bells.
“Your hair is wet,” I told her one day, “Did you take a bath?”
“It is dew!” she laughed, “I’ve been lying in the grass. All morning long, I lay here waiting for the dawn.”
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