“Every picture ever taken is a fraction of a second, frozen in time forever.”
“I'd rather have five minutes of something amazing than a lifetime of nothing special”
“Charlotte has a high tolerance for risk, she’s a slave to the sea and she takes pictures of time.”
“I don’t aspire to rule the world. I just want to rule my world.”
“I don’t think you’re going to need me when you jump this time.” Alex looked straight at me. “This time, I think you’re going to fly.”
“Winter was much slower. Cold June days were downright oppressive.”
“I am the girl who has always been desperate to get the hell out of there.”
“A zoologist from another universe, where we can suppose the two laws do not apply, might justifiably classify most earthly fauna as subspecies of worm. We are superstructures built on and around our alimentary canal — on and around the worm that we once were.”
“You can never see anything clearly when you're running.”
“...too many people in such a limited place only served to fuel her anxiety.”
“my toenails have grown long. They are curling at the ends, confused about which direction they should be going in. Hard, like bone. I bite my fingernails to keep them short, spitting them out and leaving them where they stick, brittle and sharp around my desk. I am not a bloody circus performer, though: I can’t do the same with my toenails. Besides, I suspect my teeth wouldn’t be up to the job.”
“I looked down at this city, this civilization, and I realized just how little I really knew about a world where there was so much to know.”
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