“In the morning I had a look so lost, a face so dead, that perhaps those whom I met did not see me.”
― A Season in Hell & The Drunken Boat
― A Season in Hell & The Drunken Boat
“And then like Pandora, opening the great big box of the world and not being afraid, not even caring whether what’s inside is good or bad. Because it’s both. Everything is always both. But you have to open it to find that out.”
― The Girl With All the Gifts
― The Girl With All the Gifts
“Now, with her mom and dad gone and no real friends to speak of besides a man four months in the unreachable future, her dreams have reset from world-changing to the desperately personal.”
― Recursion
― Recursion
“It didn’t occur to either of us that the worlds we offered one another were false, mosaics constructed of only the most appealing shards of glass.”
― The Rending and the Nest
― The Rending and the Nest
“The truth is the truth, the only prize worth having. If you deny it, you’re only showing that you’re unworthy of it.”
― The Girl With All the Gifts
― The Girl With All the Gifts
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