Steph

“But she learned long ago, there’s no life better than a life shared. To fully give it, and take it, until one isn’t complete without the other. They never told her that.”
― Ben Reeves, Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

“Time is not kind to humans”
― Glenn Dixon, The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances

“Here we are, doing small things, nothing really, just talking, watching television. And yet in the nothingness there is a life more real than any wedding or christening or birthday party. In these tiny moments, when the spectacle is stripped away, when there is no reason for the day, what’s left appears to be something true, something fundamental to being a person. I breathe all of”
― Ben Reeves, Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

“The Grid in fact began with the transportation of goods. It began with self-driving cars and then semitrailers, and soon it was running trains and airports and the cargo ships that carved across the immense oceans. Those in control loved the efficiencies, but in time, the Grid took over everything, and all the jobs that had once fallen to Humans were done now, much more economically, by this all-encompassing Grid. For some, this was a good thing. For many, it was accepted as a natural progression. But for a few, like Kate, this was a constraint, something from which to escape.”
― Glenn Dixon, The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances