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marchenwings
2. The empty landscape observed itself.
3. No method is perfect, he said, but perfection is always unlovable. What we love are blemishes.
4. But do my words ring in anyone else’s soul? Does anyone hear them besides me?
5. We are oaks — we grow in the openings side by side.
6. —so, yes: joy
7. The saccharine sweet of the concentrate combined with the chemical menthol sugar-free cherry burned as it went down, and then it salted the wounds.
8. Now entering a town with a four digit population. The gas station is adorned with thousands of wind chimes. There is no wind.
9. “Forests have secrets,” he said gently. “It’s practially what they’re for. To hide things. To separate one world from another.”
10. But when I lean over the chasm of myself — it seems my God is dark and like a web: a hundred roots silently drinking.
11. So the being grows rings; identity becomes robust
12. The forest is full of the sound of tears.
13. The mountains were fragrant with pine and honey.
14.
things the wings do15. I want to raise up the magic world all round me and live strongly and quietly there.
16. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.
17. Green as fresh emeralds. Green as remembered rivers.
18. Your ghost remains upright in my memory, while your skeleton is in the earth.
19. Midsummer Eve, strange, pale night, you always awaken that memory, the memory that is really the only one I have, the only one that remains when everything else recedes, turns to dust, and disappears.
20. names related to butterflies, moths, and fireflies
21. There was a lovely scent of young summer in the air, a happy blend of pine, and primrose, and rhododendron, and the salty, pungent, muddy smell of a bubbling ebb-tide.
22. And looking up, she saw above the thin trees the pulse of the full-throbbing star, and
23. perhaps soon i will bring you here, and we can sit in the grass and be tender all day
24. First, the pulse of colour flooded the bay with blue, and the heart expanded with it and the body swam, only the next instant to be checked and chilled by the prickly blackness of the ruffled waves.
25. (for she was in love with them all, in love with this world)
26. With stars in her eyes and veils in her hair, with cyclamen and wild violets—
27. Mine is the moon who commands to the tides, the pale queen of white nights and hybrids, of moods.
28. ISMENE: you are a person in love with the impossible. ANTIGONE: and when my strength is gone I’ll stop.
29. MEDVIEDENKO : They love one another, and their two souls will unite to-night in the effort to interpret the same idea by different means.
30. How cruel, how profoundly tender.
31. I seemed to hold two lives—the life of thought, and that of reality; and, provided the former was nourished with a sufficiency of the strange necromantic joys of fancy, the privileges of the latter might remain limited to daily bread, hourly work, and a roof of shelter.
32. —electrified by desire so that they touch not touching. Conjoined they are held apart.
33. There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others.
34. —the tears unkissed stand in our eyes.
35.
They went out laughing into the warm soft night, and the magic was about them everywhere.36. I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
37. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
38. You want nothing but patience—or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
39. There was just enough heat to enhance the value of the breeze, and just enough wind to keep the whole sea in motion, to make the waves come bounding to the shore, foaming and sparkling, as if wild with glee.
40. We’d come so close, do you see, that I wouldn’t be surprised out of myself every time you touched.
41. But our wishes are like tinder: the flint and steel of circumstances are continually striking out sparks, which vanish immediately, unless they chance to fall upon the tinder of our wishes; then, they instantly ignite, and the flame of hope is kindled in a moment.
42. What a fool you must be, said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.
43. In this novel, love goes through measured, calculated pain in order to be deserved.
44. This is the wrong story, she thinks to herself, clutching her leather satchel tighter, but she doesn’t know what the right story is.
45. if it makes you glad to be alive then it’s not silly.
46. but what that means to me is that somewhere, in an older universe, the night sky looks like a tapestry of diamonds. somewhere darkness is pale white and glittering.
47. she may be queen one day, and if she cannot comfort six mourning children, how will she rule a nation?
48. She is not honest as a virtue, but as a vice.
49. What if princeing falls through?
50. with the realization that his hint-giving generosity has taught me how to give hints to others myself
51. when we imagine princesses, they always cry daintily.
52. her princes saw her and pretended to be scared off by dragons.
53. biting a great deal more than she should
54. The time for kindness is gone. Unearth the hatchet and get to sharpening.
55. like, the sound of hell opening up isn’t exactly a slurp-pop, but it does sound a lot like the way my seventh grade math teacher’s tongue used to sound when she was about to make a harsh comment about my homework.
56. i want to be so kind it echoes backwards in time and undoes the things that hurt you.
57. that you have angered one who is slow to anger, that you have incurred a wrath not easily woken
58. What was happening to you wasn’t love.
59. She left the fairy mound, an infant in each arm, and brought them home.
60. and humans are capable of growing quite old and acting quite noble and being quite strange themselves
61. in search of a youth and an eternity that might’ve existed fifty years ago, but not now.
62. hope–that radiant star which lifts and tosses everything with its gravity, distorting time and space into the most unusual shapes—you never thought it would get like this.
63. the first night is ugly.
64. how to know when someone hates you by the way they smile
65. the good quiet wonder of regular mornings with laundry and matching socks
66. a secret just welled up in my throat
67. concept: it is raining flowers
68. sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her
69. may the bridges i burn light the way
70. they see life as an inside joke
71. swans are the devil’s geese.
72. the ocean, who loves you
73. i am a real person somehow
74. no glorious battle this, but one of fear and wretched survival.
75. He was tall and he gangled.
76. They were never going to change. You did the right thing.
77. i keep anger in my breastbone
78. You’re not sure it ends.
79. a very pointed dearth of swords or spears or knives
80. OH! I BETTER BUY HIM SOME CHOCOLATE!
81. i have the beginnings of something but i need a gentler middle, and some assurance of an unbent ending.
82. maybe you will be the person who makes the sky blush.
83. fairydust and rubies, magic and gold.
84. concept: i say everything i ever wanted to say. they listen to me. they hear me.
85. I will love the me that survives
86. a horrible crunching sound
87. one day these stories will be about you.
88. “If I can’t save humanity,” pondered the machine, “I suppose I could save the next best thing.”
89. there was always a very small delay between something happening and her smile, as if she had to remind herself to pull the strings, and it was agonizing.
90. sometimes she lives at half-resolution.
91. with rot in our ribs, with sour on our tongues, with weakness in our backbones
92. enough kindness for even half an orange
93. Don’t go, unless you can’t help yourself.
94. If this is the end of all things.
95. a terrible, human sadness
96.
But at least you die at home.97. “You can’t hear me,” she says quietly, “because you won’t.”
98. like there are doors that need to open
99. The fairies are old as the stars. But not older.
100. a stardust name