“I sometimes imagine I would like my ashes to be scattered in a library. But then the librarians would just have to come in early the next morning to sweep them up again, before the people got there.”
― Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
― Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
“If words, as they claimed, had no weight
in our world, why did we keep
sinking, Doctor—I mean
Lord—why did the water swallow
our almost human hands
as we sang?”
― Time Is a Mother
in our world, why did we keep
sinking, Doctor—I mean
Lord—why did the water swallow
our almost human hands
as we sang?”
― Time Is a Mother
“When you're dumb enough for long enough, you're gonna meet someone too smart to love you, and they're gonna love you anyway, and its gonna go so poorly.”
― Our Numbered Days
― Our Numbered Days
“Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour.”
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“I will whisper your name
From the cracks in the canyon rocks
And you will know that this is heaven,
Knowing that someone will always remember
Your irises and where you hid your love
Letters and why you could never speak
In anything but short sentences.”
― Our Numbered Days
From the cracks in the canyon rocks
And you will know that this is heaven,
Knowing that someone will always remember
Your irises and where you hid your love
Letters and why you could never speak
In anything but short sentences.”
― Our Numbered Days
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