The Last One

by Will Dean

To librarians. I’ve visited libraries my whole life. To escape, to warm up, to learn. Librarians are the protectors of those spaces. They help us find what we are looking for, even when we’re not even sure what that is.

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. —MARY SHELLEY, FRANKENSTEIN

Says he’s hungover and needs bacon.”

“Humans can survive three weeks with no food, three days with no water, three hours with no shelter if it’s cold, three minutes with no hope.”

Before you lose someone, you cannot predict the shape or depth of the hole their absence will leave in your life.