“I, myself, had a very complicated relationship with emptiness, blankness, nothingness. Sometimes I wanted only to fill it, frightened that if I didn’t it would eat me alive or kill me. But sometimes I longed for total annihilation in it—a beautiful, silent erasure. A desire to be vanished.”
― The Pisces
― The Pisces
“Life is never yours. You are just renting it out while the landlord in the sky ups the price until you can’t pay anymore”
― We Are All the Same in the Dark
― We Are All the Same in the Dark
“That is what I imagined life to be—one long sentence of waiting out the clock.”
― Eileen
― Eileen
“It is a danger to become nothing. You hope no one will look, and so one day when you go to find yourself, only dust remains, ground down to nothing from sheer neglect.”
― The Familiar
― The Familiar
“In truth, we will only perform any action a certain number of times, and to know that can never be helpful. There is, in my opinion, no use in demanding to know the number, in demanding to know upon waking the number of boxes to be ticked off every single day. After all, why would it help to be shown the mathematics of things, when instead we could simply imagine that whatever time we have is limitless.”
― Our Wives Under the Sea
― Our Wives Under the Sea
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