#constantpai

"Thaniel listened for a while longer, because the silence was so deep and clear that he could hear ghosts of the thirty-six of thirty-seven possible worlds in which Grace had not won at the roulette, and not stepped backward into him. He wished then that he could go back and that the ball had landed on another number. He would be none the wiser and he would be staying at Filigree Street, probably for years, still happy, and he wouldn’t have stolen those years from a lonely man who was too decent to mention that they were missing."

"I had never really wanted to come to Peru, never been excited about it. There had been too much to worry about... I’d thought that something was gone in me and I would never be uncircumspectly pleased with anything again. But all at once it came back. The place where my father had stood and my grandfather, a place that was in my bones and stories and home but had been as lost to me as Byzantium for years – here it was."

"And whatever walked there, walked alone."

"It’s easy to think that nobody could really arrange the world like clockwork. All sorts of things would get stuck in the mechanisms; history is full of queens and generals who’ve given it a damn good go but failed because of nothing more complicated than the weather. But clairvoyants have a knack for arranging time, and it was not without a sense of irony that Keita Mori was a watchmaker."

"We all face the same end. Those above have long forgotten us. They do not judge us. In death I am alone, and my only judge... is me."

- quote from Netflix's Dark, an extremely quotable show as it turns out 😂

Another excerpt from Poe's The Raven.

I rewrote it with my Platinum 3776 with the intention of making a comparison of Iroshizuku Syo-ro between dip pen and inked fountain pen use. After penning halfway through and wondering why it's surprisingly lighter and more teal-ish, I realized I had this pen inked with Kujaku instead 😅 Oh well, next time, I suppose.