— Jonathan Carroll, The Marriage of Sticks
(Source: jonathancarroll.com)
2013/05/28
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Our Short Story Month campaign continues with Jonathan Carroll’s “The Woman Who Married a Cloud”. Read the story Free Here. Only on Tumblr
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What do you do with your love for someone when they die? Or the memories they’ve left? Do you pack them up in moving boxes and write strange names for them across the top? Then where do you put them and the rest of a life you were supposed to share with a person who left without warning?
— Jonathan Carroll, The Marriage of Sticks
— Jonathan Carroll, The Marriage of Sticks
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I have come to realize this is an essential lesson: In order to survive, you must learn to live without everything. Optimism dies first, then love, and finally hope. But still you must continue. If you were to ask me why, I would say that even without those fundamental things, the great things, the hot-blood-in-the-veins things, there is still enough in a day, in a life, to be precious, important, sometimes even fulfilling. How do I live without you? I put you in the museum of my heart where I often go, absorbing as much as I can bear before closing time.
— Jonathan Carroll, The Marriage of Sticks
— Jonathan Carroll, The Marriage of Sticks
(Source: jonathancarroll.com)
