Potent Quotable (October 2025)
“There are no words for such moments. I ran to the edge of the cloisters, clinging to you, feeling your petal-smooth check against my neck. The first of my tears was welling in my eyes, and it was hot and bitter beyond anything I’d known. I looked over the low wall. On an outcropping of rock fifteen feet below, there was a scarlet splash - not large, but distinct in the morning sun. Below that the gulf yawned, the mists rose, the eagles hunted, the mountains fell to their very roots. I ran for the main gate, stumbled around the outer walls. The precipice was so steep that even if I hadn’t been holding you I could not have climbed down there safely to that first outcropping. I stood watching a wave of loss come through the celestial air toward me, through that beautiful morning. Then my grief reached me, an unspeakable fire.” -Elizabeth Kostova
Be good to each other,
Nathan
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