What a strange, amazing life.
She just witnessed her own murder.
No socks. No briefs. Guess I’ll roll commando.
It’s funny. I don’t remember forgetting
It took Letty four tries to get her left leg through the harness. Isaiah watching her from the window. He said, You gotta lock that shit down. Lock what down? Your panic.
If you go in with fear, fear is what you’ll find.
I used to. When we were real people. When we could talk about the things in our hearts. You know this is the first real conversation I’ve had in years?
I paint my life with words.
There was darkness everywhere human beings gathered.
Shit. He was going to need a bigger gun. Not a problem.
It was the fakeness that killed her.
It was nothing more than a beautiful prison, run by a psychopath.
I don’t want you to, but I need you to.
Consciousness is a result of environment. Our cognitions - our idea of reality - are shaped by what we can perceive, by the limitations of our senses.
YOU ARE THE ONLY FLOWER OF MEDITATION IN THE WILDERNESS.
Jack, I’m just telling you, if it turns out. . .I want you to shoot me.Dee—I’m not kidding, not exaggerating, just telling you that I do not have it in me to handle that.You have a daughter, too. You...
I’d hate to meet one of those thriller writers in person.
It will be destructive at first, like all progress. Just as the industrial age ushered in two world wars. Just as Homo sapiens supplanted the Neanderthal. But would you turn back the clock on all that...
I am hardwired to love and protect that woman.
How would one publish a living book, whose stories never ended?