Anything can happen. But almost always, just normal things happen and people have happy lives.

David Wroblewski

Stichwörter: fate



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Some things were certain - they had already happened - but the future could not be divined. Perhaps by Ida Paine. For everyone else, the future was no ally. A person had only his life to barter with. He felt that way. He could lose himself... or trade what he had for something he cared about. That rare thing. Either way, his life would be spent.

David Wroblewski


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The strangest kind of curse had been laid upon him: knowledge without hope of evidence.

David Wroblewski


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...in that dilated moment after sunset when the sky holds all the light...

David Wroblewski

Stichwörter: light sky sunset the-story-of-edgar-sawtelle



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The man took another long look at the dogs. "When they start chewing on things, try to steer them over to that chair, would you?" He jerked his thumb at an overstuffed armchair in the corner. It was upholstered in orange and brown. Images of ducks were involved in the pattern. "I hate that chair," he said. Edgar looked at him, trying to decide if he was making a joke.

David Wroblewski


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Others dreamed of finding a person in the world whose soul was made in their mirror image, but Almondine and Edgar had been conceived nearly together, grown up together, and however strange it might be, she was his other. Much could be endured for that.

David Wroblewski


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...do you actually think that how long a person grieves is a measure of how much they loved someone?

David Wroblewski

Stichwörter: death grief



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She had learned, in her life, that time lived inside you. You are time, you breathe time, though she hadn't understood why... Now she held inside her a cacophony of times and lately it drowned out the world.

David Wroblewski

Stichwörter: time



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