All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Here too was the terrifying fixed curve of the infinite, the creeping curve of logic which at least must become the final signpost at the edge of nothing.
- Conrad Aiken, American Fantastic Tales:Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality -- the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
The general perception of Easter when it comes to the world in general is bunnies and Easter eggs and Cadbury eggs and stuff. But the real meaning of it has to do with Jesus Christ giving his life for each and every one of us.
Some beach somewhere.
There's a big umbrella casting shade over an empty chair.
Palm trees are growing.
Warm breeze is blowing.
I picture myself right there.
On some beach somewhere