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“Some part of me, too, no matter how hard I tried to convince the surveyor to come with me, welcomed the chance to explore alone, to not be dependent on, or worried about, anyone else.”
― Annihilation
― Annihilation
“What I am is the Indian who can’t die. I’m the worst dream America ever had.”
― The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
― The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
“Here are some things I didn't have space for: putting on Alone by Heart and miming the lyrics in Leah's face until she started laughing, Leah's long hands and her yellow hair and the werewolf quality of her eyebrows. The way she walked around the flat in shorts and a sports bra and told me off for staring. The way she kissed me and then apologized for biting. The time Leah told me that making me laugh was an achievement because my face was so typically set against it. The way I was often bored and Leah never was. Talking with Leah on early dates about the panic of doing what everyone else was doing and then feeling like a dick about it. The way Leah was kind by nature whereas I always seemed to struggle. The way she tipped my face towards hers and told me otherwise. "You're the kindest person I know and I know six or seven people.”
― Our Wives Under the Sea
― Our Wives Under the Sea
“Clack. "I cannot bear the thought of using you."
Pause. "Love and freedom don't coexist,
Warden."
Clack. "This is all there is to love? Simply by being in your life, I have added indelibly to its weight?"
Pause. "Yes."
Clack. "Camilla, I mean it."
Pause. "I meant it too. You used to say it to me."
"We are one flesh." Clack.
"I am your end."
Pause. "That didn't mean I got squatting rights in your soul. I never would have asked for that. I never had rights to that."
Clack. "Sure. That's why I gave them to you."
Clack. Pause. Pause. Pause.
"I hope you know that I adore you, Scholar."
Clack. "Indubitably, Warden.”
― Nona the Ninth
Pause. "Love and freedom don't coexist,
Warden."
Clack. "This is all there is to love? Simply by being in your life, I have added indelibly to its weight?"
Pause. "Yes."
Clack. "Camilla, I mean it."
Pause. "I meant it too. You used to say it to me."
"We are one flesh." Clack.
"I am your end."
Pause. "That didn't mean I got squatting rights in your soul. I never would have asked for that. I never had rights to that."
Clack. "Sure. That's why I gave them to you."
Clack. Pause. Pause. Pause.
"I hope you know that I adore you, Scholar."
Clack. "Indubitably, Warden.”
― Nona the Ninth
“But when I think of you, I want to be alone together. I want to strive against and for. I want to live in contact. I want to be a context for you, and you for me.
I love you, and I love you, and I want to find out what that means together.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
I love you, and I love you, and I want to find out what that means together.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
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