

“I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.”
― Circe
― Circe

“Twenty-one years is time enough to be a fuck-up, sure, but not time enough to be a lost cause.”
― Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
― Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory

“Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.”
― Circe
― Circe

“The silence of death, of the cemetery, was no punishment, but a reward for a life well lived.”
― Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
― Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

“Death is the engine that keeps us running, giving us the motivation to achieve, learn, love, and create. Philosophers have proclaimed this for thousands of years just as vehemently as we insist upon ignoring it generation after generation.”
― Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
― Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory

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