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![光が死んだ夏 1 [Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu 1] by Mokumokuren](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1646235125l/60536672._SX50_.jpg "光が死んだ夏 1 [Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu 1] by Mokumokuren")
“Nevertheless, life is pleasant, life is tolerable. Tuesday follows Monday; then comes Wednesday. The mind grows rings; the identity becomes robust; pain is absorbed in growth. Opening and shutting, shutting and opening, with increasing hum and sturdiness, the haste and fever of youth are drawn into service until the whole being seems to expand in and out like the mainspring of a clock. How fast the stream flows from January to December! We are swept on by the torrent of things grown so familiar that they cast no shadow. We float, we float …”
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“It nodded at his words then stepped back. As he turned for the door it smoke again, softly.
"Are you sad, Joron Twiner?"
"Sad?"
"Smell lonely. Not a good smell."
"And you would know?"
"Yes," said the gullaime, and this was the cry of faraway skeers circling over their nests, the cry that every deckchild associated with lost ships, breakers smashingon to cruellytoothed rocks. It was the sound of loss. "Yes," it said again. "I know.”
― The Bone Ships
"Are you sad, Joron Twiner?"
"Sad?"
"Smell lonely. Not a good smell."
"And you would know?"
"Yes," said the gullaime, and this was the cry of faraway skeers circling over their nests, the cry that every deckchild associated with lost ships, breakers smashingon to cruellytoothed rocks. It was the sound of loss. "Yes," it said again. "I know.”
― The Bone Ships
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