Dorian runs a hand through his still sticky graying hair, feeling too old for all of these marvels; and wondering when he went from young and faithful and obedient to confused and adrift and middle aged. But he knows exactly when it was because that moment haunts him still.
I sometimes feel like I have one foot on both sides. I am intimately familiar with so much of it, and yet it is always surprising.
He drinks his wine while he weighs his options and his future and his past and his story. How far he’s come. The unknowable distance left to go.
His dark hair is badly cut, as though the barber was distracted during the process, but some attempt has been made to flatten it.
The part of him that still believes in magic expects it to be warm despite the chill in the air. Expects the image to have fundamentally changed the brick. Makes his heart beat faster even as his hand slows down because the part of him that thinks the other part is being childish prepares for disappointment.
Estas en el lugar correcto en el momento correcto, y te importa lo suficiente para hacer lo que se necesite hacer. Algunas veces eso es suficiente.
Everyone is a part of a story, what they want is to be part of something worth recording. It’s that fear of mortality, ‘I Was Here and I Mattered’ mind-set.
They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, and I am simply a bird in their midst. The audience cannot tell the difference beyond knowing that I am better at it.
Perhaps a face is too complicated to capture in words.
I made a bad first impression, I fear. Knocking you down in the snow. First impressions are so important. You had superior meet-cutes with the others, no wonder you like them both better. You’ve cast me as a villain.” “You tied me to a chair,” Zachary repeats.
Why haven’t you asked me how I do my tricks?” Celia asks, once they have reached the point where she is certain he is not simply being polite about the matter. Friedrick considers the question thoroughly before he responds. “Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.
This is not even in the top one hundred ways he expected to die. Not even close.
Are you all right Mister Rawlins what is the matter you should be happy you like this story you like us you are our key you are our friend you love us you said you did. “I did not.” You did you did we gave you cupcakes.
He has quietly longed for relationships with the type of intensity of those within its pages, regardless of the bacchanalian murderousness, but never found it and has now reached an age where he expects he never will.
I would wager that he is more interested in the contents than the gown itself.
Stop, please,” she says. A warning and a wish.
Zachary feels something in his heart unclench that he didn’t realize had been clenched in the first place.
Hacer que lo increible parezca creible.
There cannot be many former rabbits in such places.
Ezra, I’m going to ask you to believe in a lot of impossible things but I’d appreciate it if you would refrain from using the m-word.