...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.

“She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.”

“If one will just be still, shut up, and listen--lo, behold, the world'll sift t…”

“How gleefully life shreds our well crafted plans.”

“The clock’s pendulum catches the firelight, and in the rattle-breathed final mo…”