“You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.”
― Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
― Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
“For so I created them free and free they must remain.”
― Paradise Lost
― Paradise Lost
“Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss”
― Paradise Lost
― Paradise Lost
“They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it.
Death cannot kill what never dies.
Nor can spirits ever be divided, that love and live in the same divine principle, the root and record of their friendship.
If absence be not death, neither is theirs.
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.
For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent.
In this divine glass they see face to face; and their converse is free, as well as pure.
This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.”
― Some Fruits of Solitude/ More Fruits of Solitude
Death cannot kill what never dies.
Nor can spirits ever be divided, that love and live in the same divine principle, the root and record of their friendship.
If absence be not death, neither is theirs.
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.
For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent.
In this divine glass they see face to face; and their converse is free, as well as pure.
This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.”
― Some Fruits of Solitude/ More Fruits of Solitude
“My definition of freedom is knowing who you are, and then being it. No matter what anyone else is doing. And naked parties of course.”
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Shane’s 2025 Year in Books
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