Jessica

“If one has given oneself utterly, watching the beloved sleep can be a vile experience. Perhaps some of you have known that paralysis, staring down at features closed to your enquiry, locked away from you where you can never, ever go, into the other’s mind. As I say, for us who have given ourselves, that is a horror. One knows, in those moments, that one does not exist, except in relation to that face, that personality. Therefore, when that face is closed down, that personality is lost in its own unknowable world, one feels completely without purpose. A planet without a sun, revolving in darkness.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood, Volume Two

“Being alone was easier. No risk, just loneliness. No one ever died from that.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, A Wild Light

“I learned how to play poker from a one-eyed giant with no teeth and breath that smelled like a box of rotting armpits.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, A Wild Light

“I do not fear, for I am protected; I do not feel superior, for I know the cut of being judged. We are all human, in all the ways that matter—but one would not know that for all the ways we become blind to each other, for the smallest trivialities.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, A Wild Light