You may lie.
Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with difference. We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.
If everything’s the same, then there aren’t any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!
Gay!′ he chirped. ‘Gay!’ It was the way he said his own name.
It’s just that... without the memories it’s all meaningless.
Oh the weather outside is frightful...
Mata batin yang merupakan berkah kesepian.
You know, sometimes it’s nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if it doesn’t make sense.
Sometimes we have to hurt people, in order to keep ourselves whole. We must just do it with love, that’s all.
Then, in the same way that his own dwelling slipped away behind him as he rounded a corner on his bicycle, the dream slipped away from his thoughts. Very briefly, a little guiltily, he tried to grasp it back. But the feelings had disappeared. The Stirrings were gone.
That day had changed him. It had changed the entire village. Shaken by the death of a boy they had loved, each person had found ways to be more worthy of the sacrifice he had made. They had become kinder, more careful, more attentive to one another.
We’re the ones who will fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different.
It was an illusion. It was a tangled knot of fears and deceits and dark struggles for power that had disguised itself and almost destroyed everything. Now it was unfolding, like a flower coming into bloom, radiant with possibility.
Over and over. They be making me remember everythings. Me old songs, they just be natural. But now they be stuffing new things into me and this poor head hurts horrid.
You’ve ruined it now,” she said, looking sadly at the crumpled spotted wings in Bethan’s outstretched hand. “It deserved to live, and to fly.
Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.