Lynntrovert

“It’s hard enough to live, she sometimes feels, without also having to think about it. Hard enough, amidst panic and boredom and drastically shortened horizons, to simply treat a person nicely.”
― Julia Armfield, Private Rites

“She's good at her job, but the impulse to open her mouth and say something dreadful recurs and recurs. Not unlike the irrational desire to dash a contemplative silence to pieces or climb to some high place and jump, so it seems a compulsion born less of intent than of the simple fact of its own possibility. The fact that she could do it is more than enough. She reels it in, always. Reels herself in tight. Any minute now, she thinks, any second, I could crash this whole day into the wall.”
― Julia Armfield, Private Rites

“Inside his decision-making software there were two subroutines in the shape of wolves, and one insisted that he stay, and the other insisted that he could not stay. Neither of which seemed to be natural behaviour for wolves, but Uncharles could only assume this was another aspect of his undiagnosed defect. He let them fight until one ate the other.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Service Model

“His previous triangulation data informed him that they were come nigh unto the Kingdom of Heaven. Which Nietzschean compass indicated that God was dead ahead.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Service Model