“I went downstairs and split up the dope. It was three light. Never mind. I'd get it back. I put a shot together. There was hope for me yet. Life was good when you were cooking up a shot of dope; in those moments every dope boy in the world was your friend and you didn't think about the things you'd done wrong and fucked up, the years you'd wasted. I put the needle in my arm. The needle was dull so it pushed the vein away when it was going in. But the vein couldn't run forever. I felt a little pop and my blood flashed in the rig. I sent it home.”
― Cherry
― Cherry
“I plan to continue on into Area X, to go as far as I can before it is too late. I will follow my husband up the coast, up past the island, even. I don't believe I'll find him-- I don't need to find him--but I want to see what he saw. I want to feel him close, as if he is in the room. And, if I'm honest, I can't shake the sense that he is still here, somewhere, even if utterly transformed--in the eye of a dolphin, in the touch of an uprising of moss, anywhere and everywhere. Perhaps I'll even find a boat abandoned on a deserted beach, if I'm lucky, and some sign of what happened next. I could be content with just that, even knowing what I know.”
― Annihilation
― Annihilation
“There's really nothing to prepare a person for having their hand taken in just the right way.”
― Juno Loves Legs
― Juno Loves Legs
“That's the past, isn't it. You think it's behind you, then one day you walk into a room and it's there waiting for you.”
― The Bee Sting
― The Bee Sting
“I buried myself in the woods today. Covered myself in flowers and pretended to be dead." She raised her pen for a moment and thought, then went back to writing in cursive that could rival Sister's.
"You should always wait for late spring to die, Juno," she says then. "The flowers are better".”
― Juno Loves Legs
"You should always wait for late spring to die, Juno," she says then. "The flowers are better".”
― Juno Loves Legs
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