The funeral is a quiet one, despite the number of mourners present. There are no sobs or flailing handkerchiefs. There is a smattering of color amongst the sea of traditional black. Even the light rain cannot push it down into the realms of despair. It rests instead in a space of thoughtful melancholy.
Erin MorgensternThe rain increases and umbrellas sprout like mushrooms amongst the graves.
Erin MorgensternThe sensation reminds him of the first snow of winter, for those first few hours when everything is blanketed in white, soft and quiet.
Erin MorgensternGood and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon, or a wolf and a scarlet-clad little girl. And is not the dragon the hero of his own story? Is not the wolf simply acting as a wolf should act?
Erin MorgensternYou believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry.
Erin MorgensternTags: grief
And before he can tell her to tell Widget goodbye for him if need be, she leans forward and kisses him, not on the cheek, as she has a handful of times before, but on the lips, and Bailey knows in that moment that he will follow her anywhere.
Erin MorgensternTags: love
The sheep are in a terrible mood today as Bailey attempts to usher them from one field to another. They have resisted prodding, swearing, and pushing, insisting that the grass in their current field is much nicer than the grass just on the other side of the gate in the low stone wall, no matter how much Bailey tries to persuade them otherwise.
Erin MorgensternDu musst deine Grenzen kennen, damit du sie überwinden kannst. Du möchtest doch gewinnen, oder?
Erin MorgensternDu glaubst, du könntest mit dem Schmerz nicht leben. Mit einem solchen Schmerz lebt man nicht. Man kann ihn nur aushalten.
Erin MorgensternIch habe im Leben viel gesehen. Einiges davon würde ich lieber vergessen, denn letztlich fordert ea seinen Tribut. In gewisser Weise fordert alles seinen Tribut. Genau wie alles mit der Zeit verblasst. Ich bin da keine Ausnahme von der Regel.
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