… If the dead can come back to this earth and move unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; in the garish day and in the darkest night—amidst your happiest scenes and gloomiest hours—always, always; and if there be a soft breeze upon your cheek, it shall be my breath; or… Continue reading Paul Hoffman
Luck is a woman. She’s drawn to those that least deserve her. ― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings (Gollancz, March 20, 2008)
There is in certain living souls a quality of loneliness unspeakable, so great it must be shared as company is shared by lesser beings. Such a loneliness is mine; so know by this that in immensity there is one lonelier than you. ― Theodore Sturgeon, from “A Saucer of Loneliness,” E Pluribus Unicorn. (Pocket November… Continue reading Theodore Sturgeon
Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he’s sometimes unexpectedly mortal—there’s the trick! ― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarit. (YMCA Press 1966–67 in serial form, 1967 in single volume, 1973 uncensored version)
The Vale of Soul-Making 