“The world began in hazard and will end in it.”
“I was at peace with a world which afforded so much bounty, and began to enjoy living at the very end of time.”
“We live between the two great silences: the silence that existed before the world began, and the silence that waits for us at the end of all things.”
“I loved the idea of a subversive world where mental illness was defined as just another version of normal, and education was how you made your way in the world, not something that began or ended.”
“One life passed, another began, then that passed and a third began, and there's still no end. All the ends are cut off as if with a pair of scissors.”
“..."I could see tongues of dense fog licking over the ridge in the distance, where this world ended and the next one began, cold, damp, and sunless.”