Ethan’s Reviews > There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension > Status Update

“I love the dead because we cannot let each other down anymore. I cannot fail you. I am thankful for a leaving that is permanent. It is one thing to be haunted by a life gone and another to be haunted by a life that spins on, happily, without you.”

“Let some of my beloved elders tell it, and prayer is the only cloak that can never be torn from the shoulders of anyone it is placed upon. And so, made from the lips of a person who loves us, we’re all one good prayer from being royals, or something close.”

“And you are there, too.
All of your faces, though not as they were as children. Not as I remember them best, but I know they are your faces, and I know we are young again. Monuments. In my dreams we are monuments. We get to be somewhere that is ours, forever. A place no other hands can reach.”