Forest Mage

None of us ever know what we are choosing when we choose life. If certainty is so important to you, than you should have chosen to be dead. That is a certain thing.

A leaf turns in the wind, and you suddenly have a different perception of what colour it is.

It was all so meaningless when I looked at it that way. It was meaningless in the same way as when I stood up from a game and then looked down on the scatter of playing pieces, and realized that they all were just bits of polished stone on a wooden board marked with squares. All the meaning they'd had moments before when I'd been trying to win a game were meanings that I'd imbued them with. Of themselves, neither they nor the board had any significance.

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

Isolation was better than shame. I would continue on my own. This was my fight and no one else

Any future can be!” she replied, laughing at me. “If it were not so, if it were fixed, it would be a past. You say a foolish thing. How can a future be impossible?

They need other people to make them think they’re alive. They only feel like they’re important if someone else tells them they are.