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The audience wants something to watch or read or hear. That’s what makes it an audience. And yet, as I looked around, I saw that the audience had a new job. At the particular historical moment where I found myself, a moment awash in bitter
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“Sometimes, at the end of everything, the only option you have is to make it worse.”
― Tell Me I'm Worthless
― Tell Me I'm Worthless
“How many times did I have to learn the same lesson? You’re not special. And that’s okay.”
― I Have Some Questions For You
― I Have Some Questions For You
“This tower/factory is haunted, like all workplaces, haunted by the people who have done these same mechanical actions, made the same mechanical statements, cried in the disabled toilets in the middle of every shift, haunted by the feet of every person who has climbed this tower before I have, trying, desperately, not to look over their shoulder, but knowing that there is no escape because the tower doesn’t go on forever and it doesn’t lead to anywhere else.”
― Tell Me I'm Worthless
― Tell Me I'm Worthless
“A skin was nothing. Pigs had skins; snakes had skins. They were knitted of dead cells, shed and grown and shed again. But a name? That was a spell, which summoned memories.”
― The Hellbound Heart
― The Hellbound Heart
“I think of the twentieth century as one long question, and in the end we got the answer wrong. Aren’t we unfortunate babies to be born as the world ended? After that there was no chance for the planet, and no chance for us. Or maybe it was just the end of one civilisation, ours, and at some point in the future another will take its place. In that case we are standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
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