“It’s like before the Breakdown people used to spend their whole lives making cocoons for themselves out of furniture and ornaments and books and toys and pictures and any kind of shit they could find. As though they hoped they’d be born out of the cocoon as something else.”
― The Girl With All the Gifts
― The Girl With All the Gifts
“But if time exists only in my head, and I'm the last human being, it will end with my death. The thought cheers me. I may be in a position to murder time. The big net will tear and fall, with its sad contents, into oblivion. I'm owed some gratitude, but no one after my death will know I murdered time. Really these thoughts are quite meaningless. Things happen, and, like millions of people before me, I look for meaning in them, because my vanity will not allow me to admit that the whole meaning of an event lies in the event itself.”
― The Wall
― The Wall
“In general, cats obey a practically Byzantine series of ceremonies and take it very badly if you disturb them during their mysterious rites.”
― The Wall
― The Wall
“I have never seen eyes more innocent than those of my cat when she had just tortured a little mouse to death.”
― The Wall
― The Wall
“I think time stands quite still and we move around in it, sometimes slowly and sometimes at a furious rate.”
― The Wall
― The Wall
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