“Poppy," Rune said, painfully. "Please, baby..." My heart leapt as he called be 'baby'. It sounded as perfect as the music to my ears.”
Source: A Thousand Boy Kisses
“Rune pressed a kiss just below my ear and whispered, "Sleep, baby. I got you." And he did. He had me. Just like i had him.”
Source: A Thousand Boy Kisses
“I couldn't jump into action even when people were in real danger. I'm not a man. I'm nothing."
~Eijiro Kirishima”
Source: My Hero Academia Manga Volumes 16-20 Collection – 5 Book Set
“This is what you wanted. Isn’t it?” he said. “I know.” She blew her nose. “But I can still feel sad about it.”
Source: The Marriage Gap Year
“And here face down beneath the sun
And here upon earth's noonward height
To feel the always coming on
The always rising of the night”
Source: Collected Poems, 1917-1982
“We often don’t even realize something is broken until someone else shows us a better way.”
Source: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
“As the train passes, she tilts her head back and wails her loss and rage into the wind. And even though it guts me, even though I smash my fists into the glass until they bruise, I’m grateful for her final gift. That she’s denied Plutarch the chance to broadcast our farewell.”
“He left sticky notes on mirrors: “Reminder: You are not a joke. You are the structure that allows the joke to exist.”
Source: Entropy in Love and Other Errors: Absurdist Short Stories about Meaning, Glitches, and Goodbyes
“He walked into the spotlight. The crowd cheered. He waited.
And then, with no warning, he let out a single, clear laugh.
It came out of him like a floodgate bursting. High-pitched, joyous, real. He laughed until his face crumpled, until his knees gave way, until he collapsed to the floor.
They thought it was the act.
They laughed harder.
Some stood. Some applauded.
A child shouted, “Do it again!”
But Bobo lay still.
His rubber nose squeaked against the stage floor.
His heart didn’t.
The laughter swelled like an ocean, unknowing, unrelenting. The curtain dropped.
Behind it, a small notebook fell from his jacket. It opened to a single scribbled line:
“The joke was me.”
Source: Entropy in Love and Other Errors: Absurdist Short Stories about Meaning, Glitches, and Goodbyes
“I don't know if I'm extremely sensitive or life is unbearable.”