Ryan Lowe

“I don't know when they first had feeds. Like maybe, fifty or a hundred years ago. Before that, they had to use their hands and their eyes. Computers were all outside the body. They carried them around outside of them, in their hands, like if you carried your lungs in a briefcase and opened it to breathe.”
― M.T. Anderson, Feed

“The first time I meet Patrick Braddock, I'm wearing his wife's lipstick.”
― Sara Flannery Murphy, The Possessions

“If Patrick leaves, I don’t know what will happen to his wife. When it’s clear that he’s not coming back, she could stay inside me, metastasizing through my bones until nobody can tell us apart. Or she might leave. A parasite deserting a starving host. A stowaway swimming from a sinking ship.... I'm not sure which fate I prefer... To let Sylvia devour me or to be entirely alone again, abandoned inside my skin.”
― Sara Flannery Murphy, The Possessions

“Do you know,” Tom said, “when a forest grows back after a fire, sometimes it’s not even the same forest? Different trees grow faster because the soil’s been changed by the fire. So really, you might be looking at a whole new forest now.”
― Sara Flannery Murphy, Girl One