“Remember that grief is a necessary pain. It’s your only way to heal. To starve it will destroy you.”~The Grimoire”
― S.M. Boyce, quote from Lichgates
“Maybe you’re so good at listening that you have no idea when to speak.” ~Braeden”
― S.M. Boyce, quote from Lichgates
“The time will come when you will doubt everything you stand for, but you must push forward and never stop. Do not let others speak for you, or you will lose your voice forever.” ~The Grimoire”
― S.M. Boyce, quote from Lichgates
“But that’s the trouble with moments—they end." ~Narrator”
― S.M. Boyce, quote from Lichgates
“Don’t let others speak for you, or you will lose your voice forever.”
― S.M. Boyce, quote from Lichgates
“But that’s the trouble with moments—they end. ~Narrator”
― S.M. Boyce, quote from Lichgates
“And, ah, who are you?
What Horseman, I mean.”
Thanatos swung around. “Death.”
Cara swallowed. Audibly. “As in, the Grim Reaper?”
He snorted. “That poser.”
― Larissa Ione, quote from Eternal Rider
“My sufferings I can compare to nothing else than the burning agonies of hell!”
― Solomon Northup, quote from Twelve Years a Slave
“…And you’re acting like I should be able to read something in your silence. The problem is that speech needs periods of silence to be intelligible, to separate the words and keep it from being a steady drone of noise. To frame it. The opposite is true. To find the meaning in what’s left unsaid, we need words to punctuate it.”
― quote from Worm
“There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in different rooms.”
― Angela Carter, quote from Wise Children
“A few days earlier, Chess and Thomas had driven to Spokane for a cheap hamburger. They walked in downtown Spokane and stumbled onto a drunk couple arguing.
"Get the fuck away from me!" the drunk woman yelled at her drunk husband, who squeezed his hand into a fist like he meant to hit her.
Thomas and Chess flinched, then froze, transported back to all of those drunken arguments they'd witnessed and survived.
The drunk couple in downtown Spokane pulled at each other's clothes and hearts, but they were white people. Chess and Thomas knew that white people hurt each other, too. Chess knew that white people felt pain just like Indians, Nerve endings, messages to the brain, reflexes. The doctor swung hammer against knee, and the world collapsed.
"You fucker!" the white woman yelled at her husband, who opened his hands and held them out to his wife. An offering. That hand would not strike her. He pleaded with his wife until she fell back into his arms. That white woman and man held each other while Chess and Thomas watched. A hundred strangers walked by and never noticed any of it.
After that, Chess and Thomas had sat in the van in a downtown parking lot. Thomas began to weep, deep ragged tears that rose along his rib cage, filled his mouth and nose, and exploded out.”
― Sherman Alexie, quote from Reservation Blues
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