Ersatz

“Time compresses the older you get. Days turn to weeks turn to months turn to seasons turn to years, until your life resides in just one moment expanding forever, where each step and breath folds wrinkles into your face, carving minute, irreversible wounds between your joints. Pressing down the notches between your spine, driving your ankles and knees to ruin. I feel it now and it’ll only be worse in the future.”
― B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

“Someday I’ll wake up and it’ll be like my life’s already over, because it’ll be dozens of years from now already and I’m still the same. Sets of mirrors facing each other, expanding space and me and every moment I’ve been here. Nobody knows me, because I haven’t left anything for them, and I can’t stand to look half of them in the eye.”
― B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

“An astronaut who had never left Earth, fighting an enemy toward entropy.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Absolution

“It's really hard to put into words things that are just a little bit not okay.”
― Sayaka Murata, Earthlings