“... with the cruel, odd truth that when your life implodes, it shatters nothing but your own insides. ...All of this was a realization to Maggie that her life was its own tiny matter, and that the rest of the world carried on, obliious and imperious to her aftershocks.”
― The Carnival at Bray
― The Carnival at Bray
“We have practiced for death every night. Lying down in the dark and slipping into that place of nothingness between rest and dreams where we have no consciousness, no self, and anything could befall our vulnerable bodies. We have died each night. Or at least, we have laid down to die, and let go of everything in this world, hoping for dreams and morning.”
― The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
― The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
“She was going to stay, an she was going to love Eoin, always, because that's what living people do. They shatter and rebuild, shatter and rebuild, shatter and rebuild until they are old and worn and stooped from the work of it.”
― The Carnival at Bray
― The Carnival at Bray
“Somewhere, out in the world, are the people who touched us, or loved us, or ran from us. In that way we will live on. If you go to the places we have been, you might meet someone who passed us once in a corridor but forgot us before we were even gone. We are in the back of hundreds of people's photographs - moving, talking, blurring into the background of a picture two strangers have framed on their living room mantelpiece. And in that way, we will live on too. But it isn't enough. It isn't enough to have been a particle in the great extant of existence. I want, we want, more. We want for people to know us, to know our story, to know who we are and who we will be. And after we've gone, to know who we were.”
― The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
― The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
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