Emily

“When you are thirteen, you spend all your time imagining what it would be like to live in a world where you could pay a robot for sex. And that sex would cost a dollar. And the only obstacle to getting that sex would be making sure you had four quarters.

Then you grow up and it turns out you do live in that kind of world. A world with coin-operated sexbots. And it's not really as great as you thought it would be.”
― Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

“Feelings come and go, unless you don't feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird.”
― David Duchovny, Holy Cow

“He was not a man who told himself comfortable lies.”
― Robert Galbraith, Career of Evil

“The past was dwindling, like something shrinking to a speck in the rear-view mirror, and the future was shining through the windscreen, demanding her full attention.”
― Michel Faber, Under the Skin