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They look so fine, and young
They look so fine, and young, and wrapped up in each other. Love is so fresh and clean at that age. Don’t you think?
Everything failed to subdue me
Everything failed to subdue me. Soon everything seemed dull: another sunrise, the lives of heroes, failing love, war, the discoveries people made about each other.
A secret always has a strengthening effect
A secret always has a strengthening effect upon a newborn friendship, as does the shared impression than an external figure is to blame: the men of the Crown have become…
You must thrive in spite of yourself
You must thrive in spite of yourself; and so that you may do it, God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.
Now they were in the earth
Now they were in the earth to which they had given their lives; and slowly, year by year, the earth would take them.
When they leave the church, the last light is
vanishing into the sky, and a stray snowflake drifts along towards the south. They remount; it has been a long day; his clothes feel heavy on his back.
He let the phone slip from his hand and lay
crying for a while, silently, shaking the cheap bed. He didn’t know what to do, he didn’t know how to live. Each new thing he encountered in life impelled him…
She would never know, because he would
never tell her. Somehow if she’d known the worst parts, she couldn’t have gone on being a haven for him. He was groping for an idea that he couldn’t quite…
Sometimes… Come on, how often exactly,
Bert? Can you recall four, five, more such occasions? Or would no human heart have survived two or three? Sometimes (I have nothing to say in reply to your question),…