“The closer Finn`s island come to extinction, the more I wandered back in my mind to the lives that come before us, the huts and the houses, the remains of animals and clothing, the coins and the latrines and cooking pots, the messages from the past left in bones and kitchen dumps. And the people.
Sometimes I thought about the content of those lives, the intangible things that leave no fossils and no marks, no history. Would people from the future excavate traces of passion? Of hope, disappointment, despair? Or would the entire human race end up drowned and forgotten, buried under waves of melting ice, with no on left to dig us up or wonder at what was or what might have been?”
― What I Was
Sometimes I thought about the content of those lives, the intangible things that leave no fossils and no marks, no history. Would people from the future excavate traces of passion? Of hope, disappointment, despair? Or would the entire human race end up drowned and forgotten, buried under waves of melting ice, with no on left to dig us up or wonder at what was or what might have been?”
― What I Was
“There was no need for courtship; they simply met one day and were together after that.”
― How I Live Now
― How I Live Now
“You are the best part of all the songs I love.”
― I Wrote This For You
― I Wrote This For You
“I know you’re not here, I can see it in your eyes when we talk. Where ever you are, come back soon”
― I Wrote This For You
― I Wrote This For You
“That's it,” Piper said. “That's the end.” But I knew it wasn't. They'd left out a chapter. The one where the hero comes home to find me gone.”
― How I Live Now
― How I Live Now
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