Misha > Quotes

“To watch me is to eat glass. Can't you feel me glittering in your stomach?”
― Misha, Red Spider White Web

“You'd sell out too if you had half a chance."

Kumo snorted and shook her head. "You can't sell out if you don't buy in...”
― Misha, Red Spider White Web

“As he walked...he picked up the holodreams of the suits...
_I believe_. A yellow-suited man was flying one World War II plane and fighting another. He had his arms out and banked and turned like he was actually flying. Tommy sniggered. Everything was nostalgia, dull, plebian, safe and nothing, nothing in all this magical world was the least bit new or upsetting.”
― Misha, Red Spider White Web

“She liked the high places, away from the subterranean rage of the working class. No one was there to mirror her image in their funhouse looking-glass.”
― Misha, Red Spider White Web

“...it's a sinister wonderland. My life, cleaned like a revolver, levels in the direction of happiness. Come on. It's a Marxian dream, possessions divides, individuality erased, money gone, voices stilled, sorrow a luxury that can't be bought.”
― Misha, Red Spider White Web

“How many rough blows had she suffered? How many times had she been an unwilling step for the selfish souls of her fellow opposite gender? And the Pinkies, so white and so male, were like living stiff boots of conquerors.”
― Misha, Red Spider White Web

“How convenient, lust and a career move in the same packet.”
― Misha, Red Spider White Web

“Below her lay the deserted ant farm city. A skyscraper was her only shadow. Plasma gas globes and lava lamps gleaned. Ded Tek was a city of hot lavenders, ketchup reds and taffy yellows. It was all wrong, the color and the acidic rain and the grinding morning cold.”
― Misha, Red Spider White Web

“In America profit is everything. They would never suspect honor. Money, greed, even revenge. But never honor.”
― Misha, Red Spider White Web

“You're sick. You were nearly killed. All kinds of shitheads are out to tear you to pieces. You were in pain, hungry, cold, filthy. Here you have safety, comfort, even, even love." JuJube put his hand son her face in a gesture of practices affection. They trembled a little with an almost instant desire. "And you want to leave---because of your---your twisted visions."
Kumo pushed his hands away. Her hunger for affection was lose in her desire for her art.”
― Misha, Red Spider White Web

“Dry ash and waxy lust. Language was caked to the roof of his mouth. He snorted in derision. To his left Mickey-san, in brilliant tasai coloration, greeted another artificial lemon-yellow day and asian-blue 'skies'. The protective corneal bubble over the area glowed softly with artificial lightning. He adjusted his goggles to see through the brown air. Tiny insects roped across the bubble's exterior.”
― Misha, Red Spider White Web