Pretty soon it would all be happening at the speed of thought, before it could actually happen, so that nothing would ever have to happen again.
You’d only think things had happened, and if anything ever did happen, you wouldn’t know the difference.
~Synners, Pat Cadigan
Category: Quotes
Virginity was a half-starved dog you were looking after, wanted to give away as quickly as possible so you could forget it ever existed
~Fen, Daisy Johnson
Did a place have to be palatable to white people to be considered civilized?
~Why Are You Stranded? Nicole Zhao
Delight seems insubstantial; happiness feels more grounded; ecstasy is what I shoot for; satisfaction is hardest to attain.
~The Sentence, Louise Erdrich
But knowing everything is too much like knowing nothing; without a story, it’s all just information.
~The Candy House, Jennifer Egan
“To be alive means full body contact with the absurd.”
~Fight Night, Miriam Toews
Anyone who puts on a crown, even if only as an experiment, will end up looking for a kingdom.
~Frankenstein in Baghdad, Ahmed Saadawi
i want you
~Modern Locket, Shy Watson (2021)
to succumb to
human circumstance
for me
Grief is a house with no windows or doors and no way of telling the time.
~Sisters, Daisy Johnson