A Quote by Thomas Marshburn
The blackness of space was a big shock to me. It is a deep, three-dimensional, oily blackness. You can feel the distance.
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Do you like me?” No answer. Silence bounced, fell off his tongue and sat between us and clogged my throat. It slaughtered my trust. It tore cigarettes out of my mouth. We exchanged blind words, and I did not cry, I did not beg, but blackness filled my ears, blackness lunged in my heart, and something that had been good, a sort of kindly oxygen, turned into a gas oven.
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