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That’s how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.
“They were proof that life was basically a short dream on a Sunday afternoon.”
― Laurie
― Laurie
“Yet he supposed a lot of finding out happened like this: completely by accident. You were just going along, minding your own business and all at once the past side-swiped you.”
― Low Men In Yellow Coats
― Low Men In Yellow Coats
“[W]hen you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.”
― Annihilation
― Annihilation
“He looked at the road quite a lot now. Sometimes the white line was solid, sometimes it was broken, and sometimes it was double, like streetcar tracks. He wondered how people could ride over this road all the other days of the year and not see the pattern of life and death in that white paint. Or did they see, after all?”
― The Long Walk
― The Long Walk
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