“We try to preserve life, even when we know it has no chance of enduring its body. We feed it, keep it comfortable, bathe it, medicate it, caress it, even sing to it. We tend to these basic functions not because we are brave or selfless but because, like breath, it is the most fundamental act of our species: to sustain the body until time leaves it behind.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.”
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“I miss you more than I remember you.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“Stars. Or rather, the drains of heaven – waiting. Little holes. Little centuries opening just enough for us to slip through.”
― Night Sky with Exit Wounds
― Night Sky with Exit Wounds
“How sweet. That rain. How something that lives only to fall can be nothing but sweet.”
― Night Sky with Exit Wounds
― Night Sky with Exit Wounds
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