M.K. Williams > Quotes

“Perhaps it was all just another game that I can’t win, I thought. Heartbreak, a meaningful career, a dead-end ambition. I can’t win. I think it was at that moment that I was released.”
― M.K. Williams, The Games You Cannot Win

“They had an idea. An idea, like a free radical, can spread like a cancer. They seemed out of step with what mainstream society wanted, and that made them a very dangerous couple.”
― M.K. Williams, Enemies of Peace

“She was one of the freest people in the world. A middle-class white woman in America, she was the benefactor of a lifetime of advantage and opportunity. She was more free than a woman in Tehran or Bangladesh. She had the means to feed herself and her family, she could dress and speak as she pleased. She could work and travel without any reasonable fear of attack. She was so free, that she indebted and enslaved herself to clothes, cars, fashion, and Facebook. Youth may be wasted on the young, but freedom is squandered on the privileged.”
― M.K. Williams, Enemies of Peace

“I'm not your Dolly anymore”
― M.K. Williams, The Games You Cannot Win

“We build these systems: organizational charts, procedures, chain of command and we say it is to provide order. To give us the structure that we need to be able to thrive. But more often than not, these systems, erected and convoluted by humans, serve as a means to hold some higher and keep others lower. The most pervasive example of this being the workplace. Lab, cubicle, high-rise, whatever the location: it’s all the same. Someone is below a certain paygrade; some people matter more. It’s all so cruel how we capture each other in these snares. So of course, when everything broke down, it revealed the worst of us. We had been feeding and nourishing that behavior for centuries, practicing our ability to marginalize someone, belittle them, shrink them down so small that we could just flick them away.”
― M.K. Williams, Architects

“You’re like the tide, you keep coming back to me. And each time you do you bring fresh salt spilling and gurgling into my wounds and you take away the ground that I stand on, leaving me to wonder when I’ll fall again.”
― M.K. Williams, The Infinite-Infinite

“A betrayal is never just one act. It is never a single horrible decision. It is the consistent silence, the non-events. The betrayal is in the emptiness, the messages you don’t receive, the support that isn’t there.”
― M.K. Williams, Architects

“The universe had just been upended. All of the pieces and places, the people and the particles, slid off a grand checkerboard and crashed into the ground, scattershot.”
― M.K. Williams, The Infinite-Infinite

“The minutes sped by with abandon. Each of them wasted, frittered away with Marie and Feminina circling the mental path that led them back to the same result. Every second skipped ahead, gleefully taunting Nina, laughing at her misery as time carried her further and further away from Hank again.”
― M.K. Williams, The Infinite-Infinite

“You can’t keep jumping from reality to reality in hopes of finding one that you can fix. Or one that is perfect for you. No reality is perfect. You’re exactly where you’re meant to be. You have to stand and face reality.”
― M.K. Williams, The Infinite-Infinite

“She was a femme fatale with creative license, and she was sharpening her pen just for me.”
― M.K. Williams, The Games You Cannot Win

“We’re going to need some caffeine and a lot of math.”
― M.K. Williams, The Infinite-Infinite

“I realized that their corporate incentives, those promotions and perks, the carrots they dangled, weren’t carrots at all. They were orange rags coated in kerosene, ready to be ignited, ready to incinerate me. My career about to go up in smoke. Another casualty of quarterly profits.”
― M.K. Williams, Architects

“Life is too short to spend another moment imprisoned by the will of another.”
― M.K. Williams, Nailbiters

“I’ve come to find that traveling the multiverse produces the same effect as a gnarly hangover induced by tequila, very distinct from one brought on by wine or whiskey. I have some experience with the former, more with the latter”
― M.K. Williams, The Infinite-Infinite