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It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over, Anne de Marcken
Anne de Marcken

It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

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  • Lisa Zhaohas quoted20 days ago
    Afterward I pretend-smoked one of Carlos’s cigarettes. I used to smoke a Bic pen waiting for the school bus on cold mornings. Then I pretended my breath was smoke. Now I pretend my breath is breath.
  • Lisa Zhaohas quoted20 days ago
    Maybe we kill the living to get at their pain. Or our own.
  • Lisa Zhaohas quoted20 days ago
    But now we are just the stories. You. Me. All of us. Just the raspy husk of ourselves. Mitchem says this is another way we’re superior – because we are, at the same time, creator and creation.
  • Lisa Zhaohas quoted20 days ago
    When we’re gone, if we’re ever gone, this is what will remain of us. Fossilised pain. Not carbon. There will be a pain stratum where all the pain will settle. Pain shale. Pain veins. Quartzy ligatures made of tears, sighs, sobs, moans, terrible screams. Maybe when there are no more living, pain will have real value.
  • Lisa Zhaohas quoted22 days ago
    I don’t miss my name and I haven’t bothered to replace it. I miss your name. I’m sorry, but I have forgotten it, too. I don’t look for it on the walls. The thought that I might read it and pass it by, just go on to the next name, is terrible. Like meeting you in another life and failing to recognise you.
  • Lisa Zhaohas quoted22 days ago
    He was eight the year his brother was born and his mother died. He wrapped up the truck in a sock and buried it. For a long time he didn’t remember the truck. He still doesn’t remember where he buried it. But he knows it is there and so is the time before everything changed.
  • Lisa Zhaohas quoted23 days ago
    The end of the world looks exactly the way you remember. Don’t try to picture the apocalypse. Everything is the same.
  • Ian Romel Mendozahas quotedlast month
    For me there are two alternatives: either swallow or break free.
  • Ian Romel Mendozahas quotedlast month
    Ideas of things, feelings of things, are becoming the things themselves.
  • raniahas quotedlast month
    It was more like the future died.
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