We Lived on the Horizon Quotes

“She wanted so much to stay with Helen, to apologize for all the ways she couldn’t help being, to ask Helen for absolution that wasn’t hers to give, but wants between them were too much. In their long history she’d learned it was often better to take the small comforts than to ask for more when neither of them could truly give.”
― Erika Swyler, We Lived on the Horizon

“Any number of programs could make perfection, but only life made art from flaws.”
― Erika Swyler, We Lived on the Horizon

“What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.” —GRAHAM SWIFT, WATERLAND”
― Erika Swyler, We Lived on the Horizon

“Better is a concept of degrees leading to the dissection of minutiae. Parallax exists because humans are not skilled at differentiating between what is worth changing and what is best forgotten.”
― Erika Swyler, We Lived on the Horizon

“They feel their face do something it hasn't before. Do people know how many emotions start in the body and bleed to the mind? They don't have code for this expression, but it calls up foolish stories about teaching machines to love - as though systems weren't started inherently from love, as though purpose wasn't care, as through care was something reserved only for people, only for bodies.”
― Erika Swyler, We Lived on the Horizon

“pleasantly debauched.”
― Erika Swyler, We Lived on the Horizon

“Fault in code is fault in purpose. Fault in code must be edited.”
― Erika Swyler, We Lived on the Horizon