‘And the March is a liminal place,’ she said almost to herself. ‘A border, between one thing and the other. Like a river or the edge of the sea. A place where magic happens, where people disappear and wizards and prophets and poets feel at
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“I told him that there comes a point where you have to make the choice to be happy”
― One Day in December
― One Day in December
“You said stop looking for joy anymore because you’re not going to find it. Look for purpose. That will get you through.”
― The First Time I Saw Him
― The First Time I Saw Him
“Far too many fear death and regard it as the worst disaster that can befall them: they know nothing of what they speak. Death comes as a dissolution from an exhausted body…Just as the body leaves the mother’s womb when it is mature in it, so also does the soul leave the body when it has come to perfection.”
― The Secret of Secrets
― The Secret of Secrets
“Maybe”
― The First Time I Saw Him
― The First Time I Saw Him
“Grief bides its time. It lulls you, makes you think it’s not such a threat anymore, and then when your defenses are down—when a plane simply starts down a runway, for example—boom, it attacks.”
― Gone Before Goodbye
― Gone Before Goodbye
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