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“Family is never really gone.”
“I have emotions, I whisper. I am nothing but a black hole of emotions.”
“I have emotions,” I whisper. I am nothing but a black hole of emotions.”
“If I can only see him in madness, is it worth trying to hold onto sanity?”
“I cannot imagine a more perfect hell than being trapped inside my own mind.”
“When you wake up, your face will be dry. But that doesnt mean you didnt cry.”
“Its all in my mind.Im in my right mind now, and my right mind is crazy."You need to wake up, Ella."The words are a command I cannot obey.”
“Or maybe Im not going crazy. Maybe Im some sort of android-cyborg-clone-thing, and Im just breaking down.Im not sure which way is worse.Dad laughs. Youre not in your right mind, dear, he says. No, ...”
“As the dreamscape around me grows clearer, I slip further away from it. The mind is a magical thing, Im discovering. A dreamscape is made of thought and is wider than the sky, able to grow large en...”
“And this is what she wants to do to people. Let them have their own lives, until she wants them. Give them the strength of giants, but not the power to control it.”
“She is trying to control me with fear, because she cannot control me any other way.My eyes open wide. They burn as if they are on fireno, as if they are made of fire. Eyes are the window to the soul.”
“As soon as I say the words, I know they were the right ones. My eyes dip down to Dads memorial plaque. Truth doesnt lie in the heart of fortune its under Triumph Towers, where the labs are.”
“Ella! the voice yells, but I cannot tell where it is coming from. The sound wraps around me, spreading like spilt water and then evaporating into silence.Where am I? I whisper again.The darkness st...”
“And I try to remember if this happened before, because this is a memory I would want to keep.But there is no echo of it in my mind.”
“Mom used to say that the thoughts in our heads were nothing more than electrical impulses. I remember Dad and her talking about this over dinner. It frustrated Dad that the human brain can fire ele...”
“I have no emotions. I just stand there, in the rubble of my life.This this was my home. If it were a person, this would be a gaping chest wound, the kind no one can recover from.”
“I reached inside her and pulled out the deepest memories in her body, the memories that words cant describe, the memories that are as much a piece of her as her arms and legs. Those are the ones sh...”
“We are, at least in part, who we remember ourselves to be. Take away our memories, and you take away our selves.”
“The freedom of our people is more important! Julie says fiercely. We will never stop fighting, never stop working for what is right!Jack just smiles at her. Thats a nice lie to believe, he says.”
“I try not to look obvious as I wait for Moms answer. I feel as if I am on the edge of a knife, my feet being sliced by the blade, teetering toward one side or the other.Oh, of course! Mom exclaims,...”
“We keep sending colonies up into space, Akilah says, and we dont even know whats at the bottom of the sea.Yeah, we do, I counter. Fish and stuff.Akilah laughs. Weve barely explored the sea. There a...”
“It was to apologize, and apologizing means he remembers what happened, and that means being trapped in a nightmare thats already come true.”
