Riley Benson

“What I'm really scared of is believing the words society makes me speak are my own.”
― Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

“Come to Daddy,” he said. The phrase didn’t sound right out of Rory’s mouth. Some boys never grew to be daddies, however many children they sired.”
― Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

“[..] I learned there [in Mostar] that the distance between civilization and savagery is exceedingly small and this has scared me ever since.”
― J. Maarten Troost, The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific

“There is a special problem in communications theory. We call it ‘narrative collapse’. When a planet is very connected, a time inevitably arrives when it becomes difficult to work out what is actually going on. Video and audio can be faked. Testimony isn’t reliable. All truths fall into a relative flatness.”
― Exurb1a, The Fifth Science