You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person's eyes maybe died back in childhood. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Time was the most precious thing in the world to me, and I’d just given her all of it. Because I was falling for her. Because I cared for her. Because I wanted to give her something to remember me by, even if it would eventually fade like its namesake. Time… what an absolute horror-inducing word Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me? Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Isn't life,' she stammered, 'isn't life--' But what life was she couldn't explain. No matter. He quite understood.'Isn't it, darling?' said Laurie. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Nothing is ever truly gone... Not for me, nor for any human being. We can only go forward, unless we are guests in some enchantment that is not is ours. We are condemned to an endless present, and we can never go back-the source of all our joy, and all our sorrow." -Hem at Zelika's grave Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>