Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers and mothers die? A world where, if two beings love each other and give their lives to each other, both can be sure that one will watch the other perish? Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Now hollow fires burn out to black,And lights are fluttering low:Square your shoulders, lift your packAnd leave your friends and go.O never fear, lads, naught’s to dread,Look not left nor right: In all the endless road you treadThere’s nothing but the night. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
God, there must be a meaning. Fiercely he was certain that there must be a meaning.Surely, while we live we are not lost.Oh Janos, Janos my brother!Surely we are not lost--while we live. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope.In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive? Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
How fortunate we were who still had hope I did not then realise; I could not know how soon the time would come when we should have no more hope, and yet be unable to die Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Saving YouThe darkness takes him over, the sickness pulls him in; his eyes—a blown out candle, I wish to go with him.Sometimes I see a flicker— a light that shone from them; I hold him to me tightly, before he's gone again. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I liked holding David’s hand, though. That part-the snow dampening my face, letting my tears mix without anyone seeing, his fingers snug in mine-that was nice. His hand was heavier than I would have guessed. More solid. Like he could keep me from flying away. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The day you were born the angels whispered, "She is going to love him until the day she dies. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
He wanted to die. He prayed for it. Through the roar in his ears, he begged for it. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
With that, I took a deep breath and leapt; spreading my arms, pretending I could fly . . . Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>