Once, there were no predators, no prey. Only harmony. There were no quakes, no storms, everything in balance. In the beginning, time was all at once and forever _ no past, present, and future, no death. We broke it all.
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...Here lie your hopes and dreams, shattered and swept aside...
...and where the Ferris wheel carried its passengers high and brought them low and raised them high and brought them low again, as if it were not merely a carnival ride but also a metaphor for the basic pattern of human experience.
On a small table beside his chair were other haphazardly stacked volumes by such poets as Emerson, Whitman, and Wallace Stevens, a dangerous crew to let into your head.
...an age-old patter that seemed like chaos but was not...
Mr. Thomas, any scientist will tell you that in nature many systems appear to be chaotic, but when you study them long enough and closely enough, strange order always underlies the appearance of chaos.
What we fear too much we often bring to pass.
Give the narrative a lighter tone than you think it deserves, dear boy, lighter than you think you can bear to give it," he instructed before I began to write, "because you won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.
On the third, directly before me, were embedded more polished letters: PER OMNIA SAECULA SAECULORUM.For ever and ever. In the red light, the brushed steel glowed softly, like embers. The polish letters blazed.Without a hiss, For ever and ever slid aside, as though inviting me to eternity.
Ah, sir, that's just mean. She's not a Victoria's Secret model. but she's pretty in her way.
She said...she said don't be scared, we wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy, babies laugh at everything, we was born happy and to make a better world.
Nothing supernatural has ever harmed me. My wounds and losses have all be at the hands of human beings...
Funny how people that don't believe in nothin' are so quick to believe every crazy story about people like us.
When I function in only one mode or the other, I am denying half myself, half my potential.
...up to no good__nd pleased about it.
Even the wisest and the best of us can be foolish occasionally.
You do what you have to do. That's who you seem to be to me, anyway. You're one who does what he has to do.
Her eyes were celadon saucers but bottomless, of such great depth that she could take in the knowledge of whole worlds and have room in that gaze for still more.