Dreamtime Quotes

“We are not monsters. What do we have left if not humanity?”
― Venetia Welby, Dreamtime

“It’s standard policy for climate change refugees, y’know. People fleeing floods aren’t eligible for asylum. It’s not the same as leavings somewhere compromised by conflict”
― Venetia Welby, Dreamtime

“Everyone knows sadness, Kit. It’s how you deal with it that counts”
― Venetia Welby, Dreamtime

“Older generations always want to tell their war stories, don’t they? It’s a symptom of their trauma, the compulsive need to convey it. They tell Kit it’s to prevent such things happening again, but there’s more to it than that. Committing it to narrative form is an attempt to contain it”
― Venetia Welby, Dreamtime

“The world in your device is separate from the real world, yes, but it’s entwined on various levels – and it’s still there even when you’re not interacting with it. The spirit world is
the same: it’s always there, discrete but involved”
― Venetia Welby, Dreamtime

“If you thought about the long term consequence of every action you’d never do anything at all, would you? Terrified into inertia”
― Venetia Welby, Dreamtime

“Money is truth and her biological father loved his daughter enough to send it. He is out there somewhere. Out here. She is finally in the right place to find him. And don’t fathers need their little girls to complete them too? The strength of her own need makes it inconceivable that it could only go one way. No, it is an elastic band that binds them, can stretch across continents and oceans. Rubber is made for stretching. It won’t break”
― Venetia Welby, Dreamtime

“People have largely stopped acknowledging the quiet death sentence upon them. They have come to accept inertia and stasis in the face of climatic catastrophe and the invading seas”
― Venetia Welby, Dreamtime

“Sol, if we don’t address the past, it will be moved to constantly address us.”
― Venetia Welby, Dreamtime

“Surviving this place has involved a lot of guesswork – knowing what to say, what to hold back, how to make it clear that progress is being made. The phrases that work. Same as surviving Dreamtime, except here she’s alone. No Kit to keep her sane. It’s funny, all her life she’s been running from institutionalised life. And all her decisions
have led her back to it. As if whatever it is you think you’re looking for, you can only find what you already know. Sucks”
― Venetia Welby, Dreamtime

“I was inspired by my travels as a westerner through a little understood area of Japan: Okinawa. One small island of the former Ryukyu Kingdom, it is currently host to 33 US military bases. I wanted to explore a possible future based on past and present colonial crimes there and the ecological catastrophe that threatens all tropical islands”
― Venetia Welby, Dreamtime