Emi

“God, it would have been so different.
We could have finished all the arguments with make-up sex rather than trying to kill each other, and you would have eventually got busted (or not) and I would have visited you every so often in prison to bicker with you over the visitor phone, bitching and sparring yet gazing into each other’s eyes the whole time. You would have smiled at me, I would have pressed my palm against the glass, and Freddie Lounds would have taken covert photos of me leaving and run snide articles about me being a prison widow.
And now we’re here instead, and we’ve made it too significant.”
― MissDisoriental, The Shape of Me Will Always Be You

“I think I’ve found the worst feeling,” he mutters.
“Helplessness,” says Spock promptly, like he’s thought about this before. “Being unable to do anything.”
“Yeah, helplessness is pretty bad. But for me,” he says, looking at the picture they’ve put up of her, of Natalie and Sam posing together in front of the zoo, holding hands and smiling like the sun, “it’s knowing you could have done something. And you didn’t.”
― luminousbeings, You Don't Have To

“There is no plan for what comes next.
She may die, and her eyes look into that abyss and feed her with a terror of extinction, of un-being, that is perhaps the legacy of all life.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Time

“Natáhla se pro koblihu s nugátovou náplní. Příšerně tady ztloustnu. Ian mě už nebude chtít, najde si nějakou štíhlejší a mladší, třeba malou Elu. S chutí se do koblihy zakousla. Mrzáček s krátkýma nohama, hm. A nadělám s tím něco? Nenadělám.”
― Jana Rečková, Mlok 2001