There are no happy endings, only breaks in the regular action.
I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.
Direction, like time, is a general thing, the deprived of boundaries and borders. It is an endless process interception and reinterception, doubling back and adjusting.
The Story of Solomon is the only way I know how to explain. And then, in smaller letters: Forgive me.
Mama, Mama, put me to bed I won’t make it home, I’m already half-dead I met an Invalid, and fell for his art He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart.
That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt.
The question was: Will you meet me tomorrow? And the word was: Yes.
This is what we are made for: promises, pledges, and sworn oaths of obedience.
I’m not ugly but I’m not pretty either. Everything is in-between. I have eyes that aren’t green or brown, but a muddle. I’m not thin but I’m not fat either. the only thing you could definitely say about me is that: I’m short.
I am growing stronger. I am a stone being excavated by the slow passage of water; I am wood charred by a fire.
She liked that word: we. It sounded warm and open, like a hug.
The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped.
That is what Alex is now: a shadow-boy.
I was glad when the invalids were executed.
The kidnapping, the kiss. I brought him here, after all. I rescue him an pulled him into this new life, a life of freedom and feeling.
My former people were not totally wrong. Love is a kind of possession. It’s a poison. And if Alex no longer loves me, I can’t bear to think that he might love somebody else.
Amor deliria nervosa: It affects your mind so that you cannot think clearly, or make rational decisions about your own well-being. Symptom number twelve.
Love is a kind of possession. It’s a poison.
They didn’t get me, I should have said. They saved me.
Fred is officially the mayor of Portland now.