“The Pure. It was all a fairy tale, something to give people hope. Real hope. Without it, they mightn't have held out for so long. They might've stopped fighting altogether. Yeah, just a fairy tale. There were no such things as angels, but the demons were very real.”
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“How shall I unwind me from the spool of you?”
“Evanescent grace, you vanish as a vapor does, or love in open air.”
“. . . and God wept only at dark windows, so that no one ever knew.”
“The answer I seek is one I do not truly wish to know:”
“In waiting I learn to live with the anticipations of loss—”
“Your face is under gauze and ever at a distance.”