The Guest Star

by Milan Zivic

"Before the war of the deserters the heavens were ablaze."

'a man is a wolf to another man, rather than a man, until he knows what he is like',

Considering everything Lucia had already been through in Lissus, he didn't want to put her in another potentially dangerous situation. He realized last week that he had to protect her at all costs, even if it meant continuing his journey alone.

"I have no right to ask you to follow me any further. It could be dangerous. I couldn't forgive myself... if... " He looked her straight in the eyes. "…something happens to you."

"I'm exactly where I want to be."

"I wish you all the happiness, Lucia. I mean it. No one deserves it more than you."

He realized that he loved her deeply. From the moment he saw her for the first time on the Alexandrian marble. All this time, he was too afraid to admit it. To her, but primarily to himself.

The scale and time of the Kosmos are too large for us."

"Our lives are here and now, and the only thing we can do is make the most of them."

"No one really knows, but the idea is that at the end of the last cycle, if we are worthy, we will return to the primal elements within the limitless consciousness and be part of the entire universe."

"I think all religions are conveniently unprovable."

"It is comforting that death is just another beginning."

"But, in this tangible world, we are, no doubt, made of some material elements. I suppose we should appreciate and cherish what we are made of now."

"The life of the wealthy is another level of existence!"

"Life sometimes writes beautiful stories."