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The City and Its Uncertain Walls
This might be one of the issues with eternity—not knowing where you should go next. But how much value was there in a love that didn’t seek the eternal?
Philip Gabriel • The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Truth is not found in fixed stillness, but in ceaseless change and movement.
Philip Gabriel • The City and Its Uncertain Walls
cram school.
Philip Gabriel • The City and Its Uncertain Walls
I’d forgotten that tears could be this warm. Tears, like blood, were wrung from the same warm body.
Philip Gabriel • The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Once you’ve tasted pure, unadulterated love, it’s like a part of your heart’s been irradiated, burned out, in a sense. Particularly when that love, for whatever reason, is suddenly severed. For the person involved, that sort of love is both the supreme happiness and a curse.
Philip Gabriel • The City and Its Uncertain Walls
No one else ever visited the library other than me. So it was always just you and me.
Philip Gabriel • The City and Its Uncertain Walls
My forty-fifth birthday came, and not long after this none-too-happy milepost, I once again fell into a hole.