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‘My business is giving people what they need. You heard my rules. I don’t do anything dangerous or stupid. The thing is, a lot of laws are stupid, too, and they don’t always keep people out of danger. What can I say? I’m a woman of principle.’
The not-ceiling was big. So, so big. Bigger than the sorting room, bigger than the dorm. It went on so far Jane 23 couldn’t see any edges. It went on for always.
How a 10 year old girl who has never been outside the factory she was designed in describes seeing the sky for the first time- IM GONNA SCREAM
her knees hurt so loud,
Same girl, same
‘Oh, oh, I’m so sorry. Let me put a face on.
Lmao-
Your mind comes from your body. It’s born out of it. And yet, it’s a wholly independent thing.
The dogs didn’t follow her. It wasn’t until she stopped running that she understood they were dead. She hadn’t meant to do that. She had made something to hurt dogs, but it worked too good, she guessed, because she had hurt them dead. That made her feel something in a very big way, something good and bad all at once.
It’s not comfortable, realising that you’ve been wrong about something, but I suppose it’s a good thing to do from time to time.
Tak my beloved
They were so far from the scrapyards neither would ever know the other was there. You could live your whole life in one of those cities and never know how ugly it was somewhere else.
My home was confiscated, and that was legal. My family was taken from me, and that was legal. And the museum, the museum probably bought the ship at auction, which is totally legal and binding and all that shit. The law forgot to make space for people like me.
‘All of you do this. Every organic sapient I’ve ever talked to, every book I’ve read, every piece of art I’ve studied. You are all desperate for purpose, even though you don’t have one. You’re animals, and animals don’t have a purpose. Animals just are.
