syenite

*“YOU ARE SHE. She is you.”*

(The Fifth Season)

*“Did you know that the first stonelore was actually written in stone? So that it couldn’t be changed to suit fashion or politics. So it wouldn’t wear away.”*

(The Fifth Season)

<n>smoke and flame</n> (2002), a painting by <n>Robilee Frederick</n>.

*“One day, I hope, you will forgive me.”*

(The Obelisk Gate)

*“There is a thing you will not see happening, yet that is going to impact the rest of your life. Imagine it. Imagine me. You know what I am, you think, both with your thinking mind and the animal, instinctive part of you.”*

(The Obelisk Gate)

<n>Spacetime diagrams</n> for <n>Magnifico Magazine</n>.

*“It’s wrong to hurt someone you love. It’s wrong. It’s wrong. It has always been wrong.”*

(The Obelisk Gate)

*“There passes a time of happiness in your life, which I will not describe to you. It is unimportant. Perhaps you think it wrong that I dwell so much on the horrors, the pain, but pain is what shapes us, after all. We are creatures born of heat and pressure and grinding, ceaseless movement.”*

(The Fifth Season)

*“I want to keep telling this as I have: in your mind, in your voice, telling you what to think and know. Do you find this rude? It is, I admit. Selfish. When I speak as just myself, it’s difficult to feel like part of you. It is lonelier. Please; let me continue a bit longer.”*

(The Obelisk Gate)

Ingredients <n>Rhizome d'Iris</n>, <n>Opoponax</n>, <n>Ambre Gris</n>, and an <n>Armani/Privé</n> bottle cap.

*“I cried for you for three days, there in that city of who we used to be.”*

(The Obelisk Gate)

*“It’s not the way we usually do these things, of course; it is not the relationship with your kind that we normally seek. You were, are, special.”*

(The Fifth Season)

*“A break in the pattern. A snarl in the weft. There are things you should be noticing, here. Things that are missing, and conspicuous by their absence.”*

(The Fifth Season)

*“You think, maybe, you need to be someone else. You’re not sure who. Previous yous have been stronger and colder, or warmer and weaker; either set of qualities is better suited to getting you through the mess you’re in.*”

(The Fifth Season)

*“This is how it began. Listen. Learn. This is how the world changed.”*

(The Fifth Season)

An image from <n>Roger Caillois</n>'s 1970 book, <n>The Writing of Stones</n>.

*“That’s not a spoiler. You know this already. Don’t you?”*

(The Obelisk Gate)

*“Necessity is the only law.”*

(The Fifth Season)

Scorched Wooden Sculptures Metamorphosize After Fire. Aron Demetz

Sub Urban - Mercury (Official Music Video)

*“YES. YOU ARE HIM, TOO, or you were. But now he is someone else.”*

(The Obelisk Gate)

*“HMM. NO. I’M TELLING THIS WRONG. After all, a person is herself, and others. I am me, and you.”*

(The Obelisk Gate)

*“The shake that passes will echo. The wave that recedes will come back. The mountain that rumbles will roar.”*

(The Fifth Season)

*“Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall; Death is the fifth, and master of all.”*

(The Fifth Season)

*“LET’S START WITH THE END of the world, why don’t we? Get it over with and move on to more interesting things.”*

(The Fifth Season)

*“Neither myths nor mysteries can hold a candle to the most infinitesimal spark of hope.”*

(The Fifth Season)

The <n>Fagradalsfjall volcano</n> eruption in Iceland, 2021. Photo by <n>Brian Emfinger</n>.