“Fate goes ever as fate must.”
― Beowulf
― Beowulf
“...[It comes] from so deep inside you, you cannot locate the source of the pain … The muscles of your jawbone go berserk, so that you bite the inside of your mouth and your jaw locks and the pain throbs. … Your spinal column stiffens so that you can hardly move your head or your neck and sometimes your back bends like a bow and you cannot stand up. … You ache with restlessness, so you feel you have to walk, to pace. And then as soon as you start pacing, the opposite occurs to you; you must sit and rest. Back and forth, up and down you go … you cannot get relief …”
― In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison
― In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison
“gorped”
― Polo
― Polo
“A life is made up of a great number of small incidents and a small number of great ones.”
― Going Solo
― Going Solo
“For if we are our own force, we are also a servant of the forces of the dead. So we have to be bold enough to live with all the magical forces at loose between the living and the dead. That is never free of dread. It takes bravery to live with beauty or wealth if we think of them as an existence connected to the messages, the curses, and the loyalties of the dead. In”
― The Fight
― The Fight
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