“Sit on the truth too long and you mash the life right out of it.”
― Sources of Light
― Sources of Light
“Every now and then you get hit with hard times or good— who's to say? But then there are these tiny times in between when you look up at the tops of trees swaying or you sit don to a fine meal with a new family or you wake up alone and by the end of the day, you got yourself your first friend.”
― When I Crossed No-Bob
― When I Crossed No-Bob
“The war was not on that map, and neither was the surrender... that makes me happy and sad— happy because I know the streams will keep streaming and the skies will keep clouding and clearing, even as people fight and tear and claw at each other... what we do makes me sad too because what difference do we make? Looking around me, at all the graves and leftover destruction— seems we just keep on messing up a darned good thing.”
― When I Crossed No-Bob
― When I Crossed No-Bob
“What's to be done with all that you know and see? What do you do with so much meanness in this sorrowful world?”
― When I Crossed No-Bob
― When I Crossed No-Bob
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