Renelle

“I hated that my mother had left him, but I wondered if he ever really tried to stop her.”
― Ashley Audrain, The Push

“To save humanity, I needed my humanity.”
― Blake Crouch, Upgrade

“perhaps there’s a reason our memories are kept hazy and out of focus. Maybe their abstraction serves as an anesthetic, a buffer protecting us from the agony of time and all that it steals and erases.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“the vast majority of them always say they’d change into something else if they were put in that situation. But the truth is, when people are really given the opportunity to be something else, and that change is real and permanent, most opt to stay the same. They get scared. Even if there’s an obviously better choice, it’s terrifying to take that leap. And if that something else is a major change, there’s always a learning curve. Sometimes it’s better to stay in familiar skin.”
― Matt Dinniman, Carl's Doomsday Scenario