I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A little bride of death... Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The dead were just the dead, neither awful nor remarkable. History separated out these individuals and preserved their names where others were obilterated for ever. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Only the debris of wreckage, and not much of that, was left behind by the sharks who fed on tragedy: the fishermen, too, mourned the death of a living child. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Just when you think you're in the cat-bird's seat, the Angel of Death calls "dibs" on shotgun. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
They had lived and known glory, and then they were ddead. She was alive and they were not, and nothing but a heartbeat separated her from them Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Every time people come at us with the intention of killing us, I close my eyes and wait for death. Even thought I am still alive, I feel like each time I accept death, part of me dies. Very soon I will completely die and all that will be left is my empty body walking with you. It will be quieter than I am. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
It's like a memorial to Atlantis or Lyonesse: these are the stone buoys that mark a drowned world. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>