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“Draußen ist es so still. Es ist das Ende des letzten November, und alles dreht sich so langsam, dass die Zeit rückwärts läuft; manche Worte versagen bei dem Versuch zu atmen. Dinge zerbrechen schnell, wenn die Zeit endlich stehen bleibt; all die Zwischenräume hier, drinnen im grauen Glas, tauende Gedanken verklären — die Sicht wird schwach, hier nachts.”

“All I ask the new year for is to fall silently into the spaces that the last one left empty. Filling them with a hope that tells me gently at dawn that my simple love can cure even the most extraordinary heart and that my broken past is enough for each tomorrow that follows. Maybe it will even remind me that all the mistakes I will collect over the next year are not as bad as the chances I missed in the last one.”

“Once we become our own ghosts, we constantly ask how we died and who ultimately killed us— we never recall the moment when everything turned against us, how we drowned in the demands of life. Like someone waking from a dream, suddenly wary-eyed and cold, we finally remember that we haunted others and fled our own souls by imitating their lives nearly perfectly, yet death eventually caught up with us. Somehow, we ask ourselves where everyone else has gone and how nothing ever escaped the mind we now possess.”