Phantom Instinct Quotes

“The thing was, Zero liked breaking things. He saw no reason why the world should be allowed to stay hole.”
― Meg Gardiner, Phantom Instinct

“It took her longer to find out that Oscar Sierra was absorbing every scrap of information from his environment, then running it through some mental algorithm that helped him figure out how to survive in hostile, unloving territory.”
― Meg Gardiner, Phantom Instinct

“She didn't want to wait. Didn't want caution, or care, or tender exploration. She needed touch, sensation, raw blank sex to overwhelm her circuits. She held on to him, and they were all arms and elbows and grasping hands...She didn't want to talk-to talk would be to break the spell, the new thing that was happening, herself coming back into the world, with another damaged person as her guide.”
― Meg Gardiner, Phantom Instinct

“He was beautiful, and careful, and had a smile that could make the devil spit with envy.”
― Meg Gardiner, Phantom Instinct

“Desperation is the author of crazy-ass exits.”
― Meg Gardiner, Phantom Instinct

“Grief wasn't a feeling. It was a thing that visited. It was a weight, a lead wall, and it pressed on her lungs and settled a shadow across her mind, until the only way she could inhale was through a gasp of anger.”
― Meg Gardiner, Phantom Instinct