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If you fell outward to the limit of the universe, would you find a board fence and signs reading DEAD END? No. You might find something hard and round...more

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Oddly, the burned hand didn't seem to hurt much anymore; it was only numb. It would have been better if there had been pain. Pain was at least real.

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When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-

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Grief is like a drunken house guest, always coming back for one more goodbye hug.

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Even when the lightening flashes inside them we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, the next pain, the next breath, the ...more

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I suspect that fright, like pain, is one of those things that slip our minds once they have passed. What I do remember is a feeling I'd had before whe...more

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For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even cry...more

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...there were those who might have suggested that reality is a highly untrustworthy concept, something perhaps no more solid than a piece of canvas st...more

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Then, instead of telling her that where there was life there was hope, or to let a smile be her umbrella, or that it was always darkest just before th...more

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Sometimes she'd go a whole day without thinking of him or missing him. Why not? She had quite a full life, and really, he'd often been hard to deal wi...more

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The memories: they are the reality.

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What about reality, you ask? Well, as far as I'm concerned, reality can go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut. I've never held much of a brief f...more

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Cat can have kittens in the oven, girl, but that won’t ever make em muffins.

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Of course it's heavier, he thought. It's got my grief in it. I pull it along with me everywhere I go, so I do.