It’s easy to forgo distractions and to not accumulate things when you have a larger goal on the horizon.

It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to an end with them.

Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.

It’s easy to forgo distractions and to not accumulate things when you have a larger goal on the horizon.

There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind.

My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.

Statistics were magic like this: they could tell you with near-certainty that a thing would occur, without a hint of when or where.