If I make it through all the remembrance that this novel requires and then make it through all the words pilgrimaging to their destined pages and if I make it through the fire to become a brighter flame then maybe I will have the peace that I seem to offer so many for myself. “I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.” -Friedrich Nietzsche 🦋