Rakesfall Quotes

“I voted for peace, even though peace seems like the kind of science fiction that posits a future utopia, sleek and bald and rational, without satisfactory explanation of how we get to there from here, this convoluted, bloody *here*, except by appealing to our better natures at critical moments, a long arc bending towards justice. It seems like science fiction, wrapped in a pulp cover.”
― Vajra Chandrasekera, Rakesfall

“Seeming biological realities are socially constructed: gender is only genre, race is a race to the bottom, species as arbitrary as specie. Seeming social realities are machinations of power hiding their inverse: slavery is called freedom to disguise its exploitation; ignorance is called strength, to champion political illiteracy; and most of all, most of all, war is called peace, the peace bought by murder, the peace of the unmarked mass grave.”
― Vajra Chandrasekera, Rakesfall

“-You mean that histories are true and stories are lies?
-No, both are true and both are lies.”
― Vajra Chandrasekera, Rakesfall

“She has so little room to live in, between the demands of her writers and her actor and her director, between the needs of her viewers and her readers. We rewatch and watch for her without blinking so that we can glimpse her in the spaces, the gaps between script and performance where Annelid slips through.”
― Vajra Chandrasekera, Rakesfall

“She asks the moon, who loves her, but the moon does not know.”
― Vajra Chandrasekera, Rakesfall