“It wasn’t even the fact that he was this bright sunshine of a person while I was an isolated, moody one. It was also the fact that as we grew up, I could see how mother favored him more… Whenever he wrote a poem or shot a bow, she would praise his every move. I felt inadequate in comparison.”
Read More“In another lifetime, she knew the secrets of those cold, blue eyes. In this one, she is just a dream, dissolving into nothing behind the red.”
Read More“Art should be happy, they said. It should be beautiful. There is nothing wrong with joy, I told them. But there is much beauty in sorrow.”
Read More“Máni reached for the chariot reins, ready to pull himself on, as he always did. But tonight, the despair of not reaching his sister fell upon him like an avalanche.”
Read More“I wonder about the sinful qualities of Eden. I am not religious. But even I know of the sin of sloth. Of lust. Be fruitful, and multiply.”
Read More“Standing amongst the quiet lush landscape of The Elysium, Pat and Les could not deny the fact that they felt connected. That somehow, someway, something powerful than either of them knew predestined this meeting.”
Read More“She is freezing, but where the winged boy’s hands touch her—one clasping her own hand, the other placed not on her waist, as Hou Yi’s would have been, but on her shoulder—she feels burning warm. He leads her in a clumsy waltz, the two of them rising among the stars all the while.”
Read More“But train tickets are never free. You cannot be so lucky as to find your destination marked on a discarded ticket on the ground. To travel between the worlds will also cost you, and for some, it costs a great deal.”
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