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It occurred to me that I had crossed the threshold for a horse I did not want but Charlie had not done the same for his own flesh and blood.
“I walk and walk with cold hands.
Back at the house it is filled with longing,
nothing to carry longing away.
I look back over my life.
I try to find analogies.
There are none.
I have longed for people before, I have loved people before.
Not like this.
It was not this.”
―
Back at the house it is filled with longing,
nothing to carry longing away.
I look back over my life.
I try to find analogies.
There are none.
I have longed for people before, I have loved people before.
Not like this.
It was not this.”
―
“A fragment for my friend--
If your soul left this earth I would follow and find you
Silent, my starship suspended in night”
― Station Eleven
If your soul left this earth I would follow and find you
Silent, my starship suspended in night”
― Station Eleven
“Know yourself and go in swinging.”
― More Than This
― More Than This
“Most of us can hide our greatest hurts and longings. It’s how we survive each day. We pretend the pain isn’t there, that we are made of scars instead of wounds.”
― King of Scars
― King of Scars
“Some people, some events, make you lose your head. They're like guillotines, cutting your life in two, the dead and the alive, the before and after.”
― Swimming in the Dark
― Swimming in the Dark
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