"To my mind, a story’s ending ought to acknowledge the ever-moving quality of life; that is, I want..."

“To my mind, a story’s ending ought to acknowledge the ever-moving quality of life; that is, I want it to engage change rather than finality. Your final word and the void following it on the page are as close as you’ll get to conclusion. The best endings to stories have a sense of hovering in space and time; even a dark ending can be uplifting, exhilarating, as long as it seems to hover in space and time—because then it reflects life to us as it is: unresolved, eternally unresolvable.”

- Nelly Reifler (via mttbll)