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But time is beyond our finite comprehension. It’s endless, it exists outside of us; we cannot run out of it or lose track of it or find a way to hold on to it. Time goes on even when we do not.
I always wanted to believe I just got lucky.
I thought I’d lost the bird, the white bird, the bird with streaks of gold like a crown atop its head.
It was like it flew right out of my dreams only to rest atop his heart. I thought it was a signal, a message telling me I was finally safe. That I’d flown away and finally found peace, sanctuary.
This suit makes me feel extraordinary. It makes me feel invincible.
what does castle symbolise? If not a safehold? Castle gave her something to conceal herself and feel safe— yet it confines?
I am a spectacle, an anomaly even among the anomalies.
clear my eyes and keep my hands to my sides and pretend I’m unable to make eye contact with anything but that spot, that little mark on the wall 50 feet from where I’m standing. I pretend I’m just a number.
6 steps forward. 15 tables to pass. 42 43 44 seconds and counting.
a parallel to her time inside
Do you have any idea how awkward it is to wave at someone and have them ignore you? And then you’re just looking around like a jackass, trying to be all, ‘No, really, I swear, I know that girl’ and no one believes y—”
The way he looks at me.
