They say that humans can read each other in a hundred subtle ways, that we can detect messages in the subtlest movements of a body, in the briefest expressions of a face, but somehow, on that day, I had communicated with amazing efficiency the exact opposite of what I most wanted in the world.
Karen Thompson WalkerOurs was a sudden bond, the kind possible only for the young or the imperiled.
Karen Thompson WalkerI never knew until then that snow made everything quiet, somehow silencing all the world's noise.
Karen Thompson WalkerBut I guess every bygone era takes on a shade of myth.
Karen Thompson WalkerI knew everything about the back of that head - the swirl of his hair, the curve of his ear, the straight, sharp line of his jaw. I liked the way he smelled like soap even late in the afternoon.
Karen Thompson WalkerAfter the slowing, every action required a little more force than it used to. The physics had changed. Take, for example, the slightly increased drag of a hand on a knife or a finger on a trigger. From then on, we all had a little more time to decide what not to do. And who knows how fast a second-guess can travel? Who has ever measured the exact speed of a regret? But the new gravity was not enough to overcome the pull of certain other forces, more powerful, less known--no law of physics can account for desire.
Karen Thompson WalkerSometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words.
Karen Thompson WalkerTag: saddness
It never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different — unimagined, unprepared for, unknown.
Karen Thompson WalkerBut the past is long, and the future is short.
Karen Thompson WalkerLove frays and humans fail, time passes, eras end
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