ufonaut:“Inside you is a weight. Sometimes it’s so heavy you fear that it’ll stop
ufonaut:“Inside you is a weight. Sometimes it’s so heavy you fear that it’ll stop you walking. And that weight is dark with sorrow. And sometimes it grips your lungs and you can’t breathe. And sometimes a grey sleepy afternoon can seem beautiful in a tragic way, ‘cause you know once it’s gone, no afternoon, no matter how beautiful, will ever come exactly the same twice. And you don’t know how to love anyone. And you long to be happy and you don’t know how. You, Shade, you’re immortal and you haven’t an idea how to be happy with that. Me, I’m bleeding money and I can’t find the happy place either. And sometimes your hands shake. It isn’t physical, though. It’s from fear of something you don’t know. Something out there. And each new horror you meet, you ask yourself ‘Is this it? Is this the thing I’m scared of?’ But it never is.” Excuse the dubious phone quality but I’m currently completely inconsolable over this entry from Shade’s journal at the end of Starman (1994) #23. Full transcript under the cut: Keep reading -- source link