“But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them.”

“A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.”

“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”

“the best often die by their own hand
just to get away,
and those left behind
can never quite understand
why anybody
would ever want to
get away
from
them”

“Where this will end? In the Abyss, one may prophecy; whither all Delusions are, at all moments, travelling; where this Delusion has now arrived. For if there be a Faith, from of old, it is this, as we often repeat, that no Lie can live for ever. The very Truth has to change its vesture, from time to time; and be born again. But all Lies have sentence of death written down against them, and Heaven's Chancery itself; and, slowly or fast, advance incessantly towards their hour.”

“There must be a punitive expedition against the Jews in Russia, a punitive expedition which will expect: death sentence and execution. Then the world will see the end of the Jews is also the end of Bolshevism.”

“From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.”

“They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.”

“… with white dawns and glaring moons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.”

“Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.”