“The courtyard kept changing, dazzling her with the flowers that bloomed between one day and the next, with the bare branches of trees that were swollen with the buds of new leaves and then fuzzed with green. Every day, she drove a familiar road through a new place.”
― Murder of Crows
― Murder of Crows
“You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“Dark came early and stayed full of lights and the shouts of children.”
― Kraken
― Kraken
“I'm your phantom dance partner. I'm your shadow. I'm not anything more.”
― Dance Dance Dance
― Dance Dance Dance
“For it is up to you and me
to take solace
in nostalgia's arms
and our ability
to create
the everlasting
from fleeting moments.”
― A touch, a tear, a tempest
to take solace
in nostalgia's arms
and our ability
to create
the everlasting
from fleeting moments.”
― A touch, a tear, a tempest
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