Brainwyrms Quotes

“YOU [that is, the reader, not the character] are welcome to take a break here given the extremity of the content explored in the next series of chapters. It isn’t shameful to take a break. It is in fact encouraged that you do so right here, so that this novel does not become overwhelming to you. Take a break, get a cup of tea or some water. Maybe go for a walk. Then come back and continue reading, safe in the knowledge that you [the reader] have fortified your constitution and thus can handle what follows.”
― Alison Rumfitt, Brainwyrms

“Sometimes, the world is so pointless and cruel, that the only logical, sane response is to tear out one’s eyes.”
― Alison Rumfitt, Brainwyrms

“I've been privy to something. And I can tell you, it's going to get worse.”
― Alison Rumfitt, Brainwyrms

“I've been privy to something. And I can tell you, it's going to get ”
― Alison Rumfitt, Brainwyrms

“Another one off the streets. One day, the gays had enough. They left their houses and their bars. They grouped together, knitting themselves tightly, tightly, tighter than you could believe into one mass, an overwhelming sea. And they walked. They did not wait for the blackshirts to make the journey to them.”
― Alison Rumfitt, Brainwyrms

“This is what we have lost. We have forgotten how to do this, that we even have the power to do it. When homosexuality was legalised, many decided they no longer needed to, and the memory became just that, a memory. Then not even a memory. A story. A vague idea. A metaphor.”
― Alison Rumfitt, Brainwyrms

“The kind of gratefulness that one subjected to violence may have towards a different source of violence.”
― Alison Rumfitt, Brainwyrms