“I will tell you a terrible secret: language is punishment. Language must encompass all things and in it all things must again transpire according to guilt and the degree of guilt.”
― Malina
― Malina
“You can say what you want, but I know you don’t want us to become too, well, what? Too human? Too living? But I like being alive. I look out at the endless deep outside the panorama windows. I see a sun. I burn the way the sun burns. I know without a doubt that I’m real. I may have been made, but now I’m making myself.”
― The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
― The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
“I close my eyes and try to breathe but the end of the world is in my throat.”
― It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
― It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
“I think it is healing behavior, to look at something so broken and see the possibility and wholeness in it.”
― Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
― Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
“We live so many lives within our lives – smaller lives with people who come and go, friends who disappear, children who grow up – and I never know which of these lives is meant to serve as the frame.”
― The Details
― The Details
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