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“It’s my favorite match of all time because Kasparov had a chance. He was in a playable position, but he resigned, the first time in his career he conceded defeat. When he was asked about it, he said he’d lost his fighting spirit.”
“There is no defeat when you refuse to lose. We can only be beaten when we give up on ourselves, Coraline.”
Fear no evil. The shadow and valley are yours.
I’m not calling you cursed, I’m saying you’re a special language only I can decode.”
The way Rook Van Doren looks at Sage Donahue is a work of art. Like The Creation of Adam, but with eyes.
A few years ago, all I wanted to do was die. Now, I can feel my heartbeat slowing. Now, I am dying and all I want is another day with her.
“This way we find a way back to each other.” He looks at each of us, jaw set, “We steal. We burn. We bleed. We promise that no matter what, we make our way back, even in death.”
"I died and it's okay to forgive yourself."
Funerals mark the end of life. It's swift, sharp, and no matter how well prepared you were for death to take your loved one, it still hurts. Aches in a way you can never predict and the only Band-aid, the only salve that will heal the wound, is the one thing you want the least of. Time.
Her face is red, stained with tears that will take months to stop. Today, my mother buried her best friend. The person she chose to spend forever with, knowing forever isn't real.
Love is wicked that way. It's all consuming and full of so much hope it makes you believe you can outrun death, that you can catch forever if you hold on tight enough.
“I’m not saying I’m going to miss Ponderosa Springs, but,” Rook pauses, look around at each of us, “this place holds us together. What do we have without it?”
"To the Styx?" I offer. In the dawn of death, with a fresh start on the horizon. "To the Styx."
