“Bear, I need your eyes. I need your nose. I need your night-wits and forest-wisdom.”
― A Skinful of Shadows
― A Skinful of Shadows
“My family taught me, too, to begin every burial with these words, which my mother said were true of everyone who lives long enough to walk and talk—from the most honorable person lying here, down to the very worst.” He closed his eyes and touched his chest. “ ‘How they tried,’ ” said Rafe. “ ‘How long, how hard they tried.”
― Viscera
― Viscera
“Absolutes are the hallucinations of culture.”
― Viscera
― Viscera
“i am not a hotel room. i am home
i am not the whiskey you want
i am the water you need
don't come here with expectations
and try to make a vacation out of me”
― Milk and honey
i am not the whiskey you want
i am the water you need
don't come here with expectations
and try to make a vacation out of me”
― Milk and honey
“If someone throws aside their pride and begs with all their heart, and if they do so in vain, then they are never quite the same person afterwards. Something in them dies, and something else comes to life.”
― A Skinful of Shadows
― A Skinful of Shadows
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