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“What will you do when you have to move away?” the woman asked at length, leaving my question unanswered. “When the region’s no longer inhabitable, I mean.” She said when, not if, as though it were inevitable—as though she were speaking of
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“You don’t sound like a scientist, you sound like a poet.”
Rey smiled, “Can I be both?”
But you’d rather be a poet.”
Who wouldn’t?” he said.”
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Rey smiled, “Can I be both?”
But you’d rather be a poet.”
Who wouldn’t?” he said.”
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“Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.”
― Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
― Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
“All colors made me happy: even gray.
My eyes were such that literally they
Took photographs. ”
― Pale Fire
My eyes were such that literally they
Took photographs. ”
― Pale Fire
“There is a vast asymmetry in the dynamic here that Billy can’t quite put his finger on, even though it’s the elephant shitting all over the room.”
― Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
― Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
“ I used myself, let nothing use me.
Like being on a private dole,
sometimes more like cutting bricks in Egypt.
What life there was, was mine,
now and again to lay
one hand on a warm brick
and touch the sun's ghost
with economical joy.”
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Like being on a private dole,
sometimes more like cutting bricks in Egypt.
What life there was, was mine,
now and again to lay
one hand on a warm brick
and touch the sun's ghost
with economical joy.”
―
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