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“He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void. Carried forth a...”
“Where all was burnt to ash before them no fires were to be had and the nights were long and dark and cold beyond anything they'd yet encountered. Cold to crack the stones. To take your life.”
“He rose and stood tottering in that cold dark with his arms held out for balance while the vestibular calculations in his skull cranked out their reckonings. An old chronicle. To seek out the uprig...”
“Where men can't live gods fare no better.”
“In the draws the smoke coming off the ground like mist and the thin black trees burning on the slopes like heathen candles.”
“You have my whole heart. You always did. You're the best guy. You always were.”
“Just take me with you. Please.I cant.Please, Papa.I cant. I cant hold my son dead in my arms. I thought I could but I cant.”
“There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.”
“in that cold autistic dark.”
“In the grueling light that passed for day...”
“If he is not the word of God, then God never spoke.”
“Then don't. I can't help you. They say that women dream of danger to those in their care and men of danger to themselves. But I don't dream at all. You say you can't? Then don't do it. That's all. ...”
“The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment in the incandescence like the shape of a flower, a molten rose. Then all was ...”
“Every day is a lie, he said. But you are dying. That is not a lie.”
