liminal cryptid

“The color of something has to do with the kind of light it absorbs, and the kind it reflects. Red apples aren’t red, they just reflect the red that you see. And so the sky isn’t blue, and clouds aren’t white, and the color of anything is actually the color it won’t accept, because that’s what it’s giving to you.”
― Ryan La Sala, Beholder

“You can only see backward because that’s all you can imagine,” she says, an edge of reprimand in her voice. “Grief is love for a past that is over, a present that has changed, and a future that will never arrive. I’m afraid your heart was wounded too young. It yearns to collect the pieces of the past because it cannot face the present. And for a heart like that, what use is the future? You cannot see forward because you cannot look forward.”
― Ryan La Sala, Beholder

“Death is really simple for the dead but it’s really complicated for everyone else.”
― Margaret Killjoy, We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories

“You’ll get yours,” I said. “There’ve always been those who want power over others, there’ve always been people who don’t. The whole of our history is the history of people like you killing people like me, of people like me killing people like you. You’ll live a miserable shit life, distrustful and afraid, and you’ll get yours. I’ll get mine in the end, the same as you, but I’ll have lived a life in a society of equals, among people I love. I’ll have loved them.”
― Margaret Killjoy, We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories