It’s a decent-sized room of rough-hewn rock walls and empty save for one thing: a man standing inside a glass-fronted box. Marsden takes a number of deep, calming breaths as the pneumatic door whirs shut behind him. Shuts his eyes. Tries to
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“For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know this? It's a perfectly balanced mechanism of shouts and echoes pretending to be wheels and cogs, a dreamclock chiming beneath a mystery-glass we call life. Behind it? Below it and around it? Chaos, storms. Men with hammers, men with knives, men with guns. Women who twist what they cannot dominate and belittle what they cannot understand. A universe of horror and loss surrounding a single lighted stage where mortals dance in defiance of the dark.”
― 11/22/63
― 11/22/63
“I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?”
― 11/22/63
― 11/22/63
“Life turns on a dime. Sometimes towards us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as it goes: so long, honey, it was good while it lasted, wasn’t it?”
― 11/22/63
― 11/22/63
“Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor”
― 11/22/63
― 11/22/63
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