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The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was.”
‘There is no pain in truth, no comfort in lies.’
underneath my linen shirts. I would carry my home with me, out into the world, as I looked for others to bring into it.
I forgot that other people might care what went on inside my heart.
Some days I told my heart to wait, just wait, because the sunset would teach me again that my pain was nothing compared with the eternal, circling sky.”
“I greet you as the ocean greets the morning sun.”
A single action could derive from many motivations. I should never assume.
However strenuously the world pulls us apart, however long the absence, we are not changed for being dashed upon the rocks. I knew you then, I know you now, I shall know you again when you come home.”
It felt like a thousand years since I’d seen his smile. That pure, shining distillate of happiness cut me to the heart.
all reasoning beings are equal.”
you followed logic all the way back to its origin, did you inevitably end up at a point of illogic, an article of faith? Even an indisputable fact must be chosen as the place to start reasoning, given weight by a mind that believed in its worth.
Everything is made of other, tiny things, and we make some of the smallest do work for us by bothering them with magnetth.”
the mind-fire exploding outward in a shock of rightness and love and memory. It rippled through the world in a great wave, rattling the bones of knowledge, shaking the heart of complacency, echoing in a hundred thousand skulls.
Sometimes everyone does their best and things still end up wrong.”
The world is as it must be, and as it happens to be, and those are the same thing, connected and right, and you understand and love all of it, because you are all of it and all of it is you.”
Nothing was just one thing; there were worlds within worlds. Those of us who trod the line between were blessed and burdened with both.
