Raising her voice above the noise, Martha said: ‘What’s that stink?’ Tom smiled. She had not been in a town for a couple of years. ‘That’s the smell of people,’ he told her.
“It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to BE itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.”
― The Slow Regard of Silent Things
― The Slow Regard of Silent Things
“There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it.”
― The Broom of the System
― The Broom of the System
“Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy.”
― The Slow Regard of Silent Things
― The Slow Regard of Silent Things
“I miss everyone. I can remember being young and feeling a thing and identifying it as homesickness, and then thinking well now that’s odd, isn’t it, because I was home, all the time. What on earth are we to make of that?”
― The Broom of the System
― The Broom of the System
“I cannot help but wonder how many of us walk through our lives, day after day, feeling slightly broken and alone, surrounded all the time by others who feel exactly the same way.”
― The Slow Regard of Silent Things
― The Slow Regard of Silent Things
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