Ash

“The Moms revealed that if you're not crazy then speaking to someone who isn't there is termed apostrophe and is valid art.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“No one, it appeared to Barney, had anything to do now; the weight of empty time hung over them all.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

“Metabolism, he reflected, is a burning process, an active furnace. When it ceases to function, life is over. They must be wrong about hell, he said to himself. Hell is cold; everything there is cold. The body means weight and heat; now weight is a force which I am succumbing to, and heat, my heat, is slipping away. And, unless I become reborn, it will never return. This is the destiny of the universe. So at least I won’t be alone.”
― Philip K. Dick, Ubik

“That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation