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We’re all just kids in adult bodies. Everybody feels frightened and alone most of the time, and nobody knows shit about anything; we’re all just winging it the best we can.”
The truth was, we had always been closer to ants and bees than we ever suspected. We just couldn’t see our nests and hives for what they were. We called them nations, armies, political parties, universities, corporations… Non-biological, incorporeal entities able to endure across generations, outliving their original members and accomplishing goals taking more than a single human span to achieve. Goals that, as we saw towards the end of our collective life on Earth, weren’t always in the best interests of the humans themselves.
We hadn’t had to take responsibility for our behaviour or clean up our own mess, and maybe that meant we’d missed learning an important lesson.
As a species with a history as turbulent as ours, it amazed me to realise that as individuals, we were still so afraid of change.
What do you do when your world falls apart? Me, I kept walking.
Fucking capitalism. I’d never got my head around it. As far as I could understand, it was a scam to keep you working all your life for the chance to maybe die in comfortable surroundings at the end. Instead of taking care of its citizens, it made them exchange the days of their lives for the most basic provisions—such as food, water, education and healthcare—that would have been freely available to them on almost any other ark.
“The point is everything changes all the time and continuity is an illusion. Nothing endures and everything’s fucked up.
I didn’t want to be hurt again, but there are just some people who come into your life and blow it wide open. There’s no explanation for it. There’s just something about them that turns you the fuck on.
I was exactly where I was supposed to be. And whatever happened on C-623, I realised in that moment—as she sat there picking apart a slice of crusty bread with her fingers, the nails painted purple—that I was always going to love her unconditionally and forever, even if in the long run, we were nothing more than friends. Because I guess that’s the thing about love; it’s not about finding the person who fits a tick list of predetermined criteria; it’s about finding that one person who makes you quiver when they whisper your name, whose touch brings you alive, and in whose company you just
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“Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away.”
Because guardian angel or not, sometimes a girl just needs a huge flamethrower to burn the shit out of anything that messes with her.
A world-swallowing hurricane with the soul of a librarian and the casual supremacy of a god.
