“All words
In the dictionaries, letters, and novels
Died.
I want to discover
A way to love you
Without words.”
― Arabian Love Poems: Full Arabic and English Texts
In the dictionaries, letters, and novels
Died.
I want to discover
A way to love you
Without words.”
― Arabian Love Poems: Full Arabic and English Texts
“The future, she thought, could not be predicted, and the shpae of things could not be divined. To think otherwise was absurd. But they were young that morning, and they could cling to hope. Hope that the world could be remade, kinder and sweeter.”
― Mexican Gothic
― Mexican Gothic
“What we are, what we’re made of, is many worlds coming together. Reality and legends. This world where we’re just people, and that world, where we can be miles-wide cities that just happen to be sitting a couple of feet across from each other because the laws of space, physics, don’t work the same way.”
― The City We Became
― The City We Became
“Real gods aren’t what most of you Christians think of as gods. Gods are people. Sometimes dead people, sometimes still alive. Sometimes never lived.” She shrugs. “They do jobs—bring fortune, look after people, make sure the world works as it should. They fall in love. Have babies. Fight. Die.” She shrugs. “It’s duty. It’s normal. Get over it.”
― The City We Became
― The City We Became
“But then you meet somebody fine at the neighborhood block party, or you go out for Vietnamese perogies or some other bizarre shit that you can't get anywhere but in this dumb-ass city, or you go see an off-off-off-Broadway fringe festival that nobody else has seen, or you have a random encounter on the subway that becomes something so special and beautiful that you'll tell your grandkids about it someday.”
― The City We Became
― The City We Became
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