At the heart of nature’s mystery lies another mystery.
I love you too, I wanted to say with as much hurtful sarcasm as I could muster, but she hadn’t seen me, and I kept quiet. I did love her, of course, but mostly just because loving your mother is mandatory, not because she’s someone I think I’d like very much if I met her walking down the street. Which she wouldn’t be anyway; walking is for poor people.
In other words, being born with a certain ability does not mean we are obliged to use it, and in rare cases, we are obliged not to. All.
A world so afraid of otherness.
I was quite possibly in the midst of losing my mind. I needed to get away from people until I figured out if I actually was losing my mind.
I hate fleeing as much as anyone,” I said, “but Emma and I look like nineteenth-century axe murderers, and you’re a dog who wears glasses. We’re bound to be noticed.
Just because I’m a capitalist doesn’t mean I’m a black-hearted bastard.
She had tried to make herself like stone, but now the facade was falling away.
They may love you,” she whispered, “but they’ll never understand.
I’ll never understand ninety-nine percent of humanity. – Enoch.
By morning I was worn out. My limbs felt heavy as wood, my head cottony. I might’ve felt better if I hadn’t slept at all.
What am I supposed to fight then with, the goddamned butter knife?
Despite everything, this peculiar life was what I’d always wanted. Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.
And maybe it was childish, this old urge to explore for exploring’s sake.
Never mind compassion! Fie on loyalty! If you’re as intelligent and ambitious a fellow as I think you are, then you’ll recognize an extraordinary opportunity for advancement when you see one.
What a peculiar lot you are, even for peculiars.
In a modest library, the creep of moisture had bowed the shelves into crooked smiles.
Perhaps she was born in the wrong body.
Buy one get none free!
Males lack the seriousness of temperament required of persons with such great responsibilities.