Charlene Elsby > Quotes

“I felt the semen expand through my body, through my torso, knees and elbows and into my fingertips. I felt when it crossed the blood-brain barrier and made me worry even more I’d lose him, not only because of what I’d done and who I was, but also because of the devil in the water stain spreading across my ceiling tile.”
― Charlene Elsby, The Devil Thinks I'm Pretty

“...It's an atemporal verb, like the universe is rational. The universe is not currently being rational; it is rational despite the time. Eternity is coming, not like a wave about to crash over a cityscape, but like a wave in which we all are and always have been drowning.”
― Charlene Elsby, MUSOS

“Freedom is being assured that every moment before eight thirty is my own time, and they won’t have any of it.”
― Charlene Elsby, The Organization is Here to Support You

“More work gets you more work, for the same pay. Then the people who don’t work more get less, because they’re not doing the standard more, because yesterday’s more is today’s ‘satisfactory.’ There’s no way to outrun it. The overachievers of today become the satisfactory of tomorrow.”
― Charlene Elsby, The Organization is Here to Support You

“We are all excellent all year round, and we are all satisfactory when it comes time to measure that excellence.”
― Charlene Elsby, The Organization is Here to Support You

“I looked behind her at the window, and I saw my own face twice. Once was my reflection in the centre of the glass, enhanced by the darkness outside. Twice was a crude outline of my head, which she had drawn in magic marker on the bottom right-hand corner of the glass.”
― Charlene Elsby, MUSOS

“If the future couldn't change the past, we wouldn't bother with it...”
― Charlene Elsby, MUSOS