“Why will it not work. What magic word made it work. Who is the keeper of that word. What did it profit Him to switch this one off. What a contraption it is. How did it ever run. What spark ran it. Grand little machine. Set up just so. Receiving the spark, it jumped to life.
What put out that spark? What a sin it would be. Who would dare. Ruin such a marvel. Hence is murder anathema. God forbid I should ever commit such a grievous—”
“I need to find a way out of myself, out of this gargantuan greyness, to find Ívar”
Source: Stóri skjálfti
“You realize the feeling of loss by your lies, evasions, and foolery if anyone else comes and takes your choice and goes away. It doesn't reverse the time.”
“Aware that there was talk of making him a candidate in the presidential election of 1880, Garfield hoped to avoid the grasp of other men's ambitions and to be given a chance to wait for the future. However, he had already lived a long life for a young man and he knew that change came without invitation. Too often bringing loss and sorrow in its wake. This world, he had learned long before, does not seem to be the place to carry out ones' wishes.”
Source: Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
“But I held back. I didn't want to horrify them. I was learning that there were silences now, unbridgeable spaces between myself and those around me.”
Source: After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search
“Salt, soul and soil are life's true currency.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Pricing is a double edge sword, it shows profits in theory but loss in reality.”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“I needed to grieve alone, not as a group and not as a spectacle.”
Source: The Beauty of Living Twice
“And this peace sacrifice, it is actually eaten by those who sacrifice it, almost like a shared meal, almost like a feast between man and God [...]’
‘Wait—’ I interrupt the guide, touch his shoulder before he moves on. ‘Sacrifice—doesn’t mean give up or lay down or go without or let go of?’
‘No, no, no….Sacrifice doesn’t mean that at all. Sacrifice in Hebrew is korban.’ Aerie flips the pages of his worn bible to show me. ‘See. Sacrifice, korban, comes from the Hebrew root, K-R-V, which literally means to come near, an approach, a moving closer, to move into a closer relationship.’
Sacrifice is not losing something but moving closer to Someone. Sacrifice isn’t about loss—sacrifice is about love. Surrender to love. Sacrifice is about detaching from one thing—to attach to a greater thing.”
Source: WayMaker: Finding the Way to the Life You’ve Always Dreamed Of
“Bahadur's ma stays close to my ma, but she tiptoes around her as if she's afraid she'll step on Ma's sadness, which must be the same size and shape as Bahadur's ma's sadness, only a lot fresher.”
Source: Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line