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"Me, knowing how this ends: “wow I hope we get to experience some brief seconds of joy eventually!!!”" — Jan 10, 2026 07:19AM
"Me, knowing how this ends: “wow I hope we get to experience some brief seconds of joy eventually!!!”" — Jan 10, 2026 07:19AM
“You want a place to be like it was in the book but it’s not a place in a book it’s just words. The place in your imagination is where you want to go and that place is imaginary.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“If this turns to friendship, it only means
That one of us will suffer.
That when we meet after the worst of endings,
There will only be this skein of words between us—
Most of them for boredom, fewer for loneliness—
Rising out of our mutual space of breath, leaving
Behind a bluer sky each moment of departure.
And one of us will cling on to its blue,
Hung on partings like a muted cloud, while
The other rides on a wing of word away from here.”
― Below: Absence: Poems
That one of us will suffer.
That when we meet after the worst of endings,
There will only be this skein of words between us—
Most of them for boredom, fewer for loneliness—
Rising out of our mutual space of breath, leaving
Behind a bluer sky each moment of departure.
And one of us will cling on to its blue,
Hung on partings like a muted cloud, while
The other rides on a wing of word away from here.”
― Below: Absence: Poems
“All good things must come to an end. That's why they're called good things -- otherwise they're just... ordinary.”
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“Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.”
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