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Adventures were quick and exciting when you heard about them, but when you were inside one they happened very, very slowly.
“Of all the animals,” she said, “only man can feel a despair that is beyond his power to endure.”
a fire that is not fed, yet still burns, must be consuming itself.
“the application of violence produces unnatural motion.”
What a great and awful power God had given to men, the power to revoke His divine gift of life, to unlock one another’s chests with the blunt key of a sword and roughly evict the ghost within.
She loved him more than he loved himself. And was that not the point of a marriage, to love a person more than they can love themselves?
The world had tried to teach him to hate himself, but he’d seen through the lie and understood who he was. They carried scars, both of them, but scars were tougher than skin.
looked up at the empty clouds, and as he died he wondered, not for the first time but for the very last, why it should be that we are made for a bright world, but live in a dark one.
