impending-doom

Someone who doesn__ know if tomorrow will come would rather live every day twice than live it once.

The antidote to joy is dread.

I wish we could go to the mo

During the night a fine, delicate summer rain had washed the plains, leaving the morning sky crisp and clean. The sun shone warm__oon to bake the earth dry. It cast a purple haze across the plain__ike a great, dark topaz. In the trees the birds sang, while the squirrels jumped from branch to branch in seeming good will, belying the expected tension of the coming days.

Sometimes he missed the numbed, walking-underwater feeling feel that the cocktail of narcotics used to give him. But if a situation went down in here, he was going to need all of his wits to get out of it.

Nico didn__ like to be touched, but somehow this brief contact with his father felt reassuring _ the same way the Chapel of Bones was reassuring. Like death, his father__ presence was cold and often callous, but it was real _ brutally honest, inescapably dependable.