Fickle Ferry, which had driven them across Lake Lachrymose
once again the alliteration makes it easier for children to remember but it also just sounds good. a storybook world without the cliche'd happy ending. plus, lake lachrymose "tearful or given to weeping", a lake made of tears or prone to causing them. freaking brilliant.
“If you've ever tried to keep a diary, then you'll know that the problem of trying to write about the past really starts in the present: No matter how fast you write, you're always stuck in the then and you can never catch up to what's happening now, which means that now is pretty much doomed to extinction.”
― A Tale for the Time Being
― A Tale for the Time Being
“paradise cannot be constructed out of concrete.”
― Darkness at Noon
― Darkness at Noon
“Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf mean who's afraid of the big bad wolf…who's afraid of living without false illusions”
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“My only intent was to feel better—which is to say, not to feel at all.”
― Wishful Drinking
― Wishful Drinking
“But that was the thing about death, as Marion knew so well. No matter how much the deceased were loved, life does not wait for the grieving. Though on the inside everything will change and what used matter falls away, the routine and ordinary remain unchallenged.”
― Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder
― Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder
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