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“You may not run away
from the thing that you are.
because it comes and comes and comes as
sure as you breathe.
As certain. The thing is deep inside your linings,
way down in the marrow.”
― The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir
from the thing that you are.
because it comes and comes and comes as
sure as you breathe.
As certain. The thing is deep inside your linings,
way down in the marrow.”
― The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir
“and I think about
these parents of ours
our makers
our stars. (such impossible, complex stars.)
How they came, exploded, and fell away.
They are not ours, the stars,
and have never been.”
― The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir
these parents of ours
our makers
our stars. (such impossible, complex stars.)
How they came, exploded, and fell away.
They are not ours, the stars,
and have never been.”
― The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir
“We're thinking, does life owe us anything. Did we get it wrong? And time is an animal, man. The years. Time is killing us it has us in its teeth.”
― The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir
― The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir
“I'm fighting alone, every day. I fight with the hell that I survived. I fight with the fact of my own humanity. I fight with the idea that death is the only way of escaping this fact.”
― Human Acts
― Human Acts
“Soundlessly, and without fuss, some tender thing deep inside me broke. Something that, until then, I hadn't even realized was there.”
― Human Acts
― Human Acts
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