In the beginning there was the Skyworld. She fell like a maple seed, pirouetting on an autumn breeze.* A column of light streamed from a hole in the Skyworld,
“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you!”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
“There are extraordinary people who appear unexpectedly on our paths, and, just as suddenly, they disappear, leaving their indelible marks and a sense of regret. Brief and bright, like a match striking a flame in the dark, they heat the damp kindling of our hearts and then they are gone.”
― There Are Rivers in the Sky
― There Are Rivers in the Sky
“Our ape brains got too big, too big for our heads, too big for our mothers to birth them. So we started keeping all our extra knowing in language, in art, in stories and books and songs. Art was a way of storing our brains in each other’s.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
“It was a time during which I questioned myself and came to realize that the problem was not that I didn’t want kids, or maybe more specifically didn’t want to nurture, to love, to care for, and raise something. The problem, the true heartbreak, was wanting those things and also feeling like I couldn’t in good conscience have them.”
― Wild Dark Shore
― Wild Dark Shore
“We belong to what we are the way a song belongs to the singer, my heart is a runner and my soul is a winter.”
― Wandering Stars
― Wandering Stars
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