Sacculina Quotes

“Find something to love about life’s miracle, which more and more seemed like the ultimate joke. They were but animate flesh on a planet as inconsequential as they were. They all tried so hard to live and to feel, desperate to understand the why of it all, time and time again, but they simply lived and died by the billions, and never, not once, did they feel truly alive, were no closer to answering the biggest questions, the ones that mattered. The imagination organ let humanity see God in their minds but still, somehow, the point was missed, leaving a planet full of idiots.”
― Philip Fracassi, Sacculina

“Sadness and loss did that to a man–took from him. Took from the inside out, so that by the time you saw the results it was too late to do anything about it.”
― Philip Fracassi, Sacculina

“Jack clapped his hands together and Jim let go of a breath he didn’t know he’d been holding.”
― Philip Fracassi, Sacculina

“Because we fear the incomprehensible, we fear other life, he thought reflectively, recalling a lesson on evolution from high school. It’s defensive... the alpha species always looking over their shoulder, always afraid of what might come next in the chain...”
― Philip Fracassi, Sacculina

“imagination was truly an invisible organ given to humans by God,”
― Philip Fracassi, Sacculina