Ai Jiang > Quotes

“In HOME, Liam was a dream. Here, he's a flawed but beautiful reality. Whispers of our future together lull us both into a dreamless sleep. It's the first time we find such emptiness comforting.”
― Ai Jiang, Linghun

“I can’t tell if what burns down my cheeks is rain or tears, but I suppose it doesn’t matter because one eats from the outside and the other within.”
― Ai Jiang, I am AI

“Feelings, emotions, experiences, are all part of humanity's shared language, and in Linghun, that shared language is grief. Grief is a language that tears us apart, but it is also what brings us together. Remember, you are never alone.”
― Ai Jiang, Linghun

“There is only one reason anyone would trek through the guarding trees to get to HOME: not to seek new life, but to satisfy a longing for the dead.

Houses in HOME sate the unending hunger of those most vulnerable, unsuspecting. They feed on our desires, our pain. So much pain. And to wallow in such pain. . . It is a hideous thing.

Isn’t it strange? How everyone here desires their homes to be haunted?”
― Ai Jiang, Linghun

“What is the point of youth if you spend it hiding in the dark, waiting alone for something that never comes?”
― Ai Jiang, Linghun

“each piece moved down my throat with a loathsome thickness, leaving a grotesque aftertaste, bits of flesh caught on their way down”
― Ai Jiang, A Palace Near the Wind