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Category: Sonya Hartnett

I am dying: it’s a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of a cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.

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I fail to see how turning the subject over like compost can do anything except raise its stink.

affected, humorous

I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire brings with it such disappointment and pain. Humankind’s history must be scored bloody with heartbreak. This hankering for affection is a blight upon us.

affection, blight, desire, destined, disappointment, heartbreak, history, humankind, pain, stupid

The quest for power is strange in that, once the quest has begun, the destination always seems to shift ever further away. What power one has is never enough; whatever happiness one had turns to bitterness.

In the quest for power, truth is always the first thing left behind.

You’re just a coward, like all those who stand behind the suffering of others.

thought-provoking

She doesn’t understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings – they’re helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in.

ceilings, desires, doors, fences, get-in, helpless, keep-out, understand, walls

We both knew that what I said was the truth, as well as being a lie. The pure and honest answer was pinging between us, hovering above the weeds.

answer, honest, lie, truth

She was the one who wanted to be with him, the one who watched and waited for him, who felt his absence badly.

Every atom in me feels composed of lead. This is what dying is: a pull to the ground.

atom, dying, ground, lead

Yeah, reflections! The same, but different. Like twins – like blood brothers! And when you need something bad done, like punishment or revenge, you’ll just ask me, and I will do it –

bad, blood-brothers, punishment, reflections, revenge, twins

Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that’s sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.

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