“Fading light means more than just the end of another day.
Night is when
terrible things emerge from their sleep and seek soft flesh and hot
blood.”
-- Jim Butcher, Turn Coat
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| Self portrait with spider 6-6-13 |
“The thought burrowed into her heart as darkness fell.
It coiled in her
guts as she wedged herself amongst the boughs of a tree to sleep.
And in
the morning, it woke with her and clung to her back,
riding on her shoulders as she climbed down, hungry and exhausted from nightmares."
-- Paolo Bacigalupi, The Drowned Cities
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| Self portrait with spider (2) 6-6-13 |
“You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.
I wove
my webs for you because I liked you.
After all, what's a life, anyway?
We're born, we live a little while, we die.
A spider's life can't help
being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies.
By
helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle.
Heaven
knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.”
-- E. B. White, Charlotte's Web
