13 quotes
Everything offended Jessica, which is inevitable when you move through the world in search of offense.
Sea of Tranquility (2022)
What is time travel if not a security problem?
Sea of Tranquility (2022)
Sometimes you don’t know you’re going to throw a grenade until you’ve already pulled the pin.
Sea of Tranquility (2022)
If there’s pleasure in action, there’s peace in stillness.
Sea of Tranquility (2022)
What you have to understand is that bureaucracy is an organism, and the prime goal of every organism is self-protection. Bureaucracy exists to protect itself.
Sea of Tranquility (2022)
If definitive proof emerges that we’re living in a simulation, the correct response to that news will be So what. A life lived in a simulation is still a life.
Sea of Tranquility (2022)
I would rather do a dangerous job than a job that makes me comatose with boredom.
Sea of Tranquility (2022)
Isn’t that reality? Won’t most of us die in fairly unclimactic ways, our passing unremarked by almost everyone, our deaths becoming plot points in the narratives of the people around us?
Sea of Tranquility (2022)
This whole place is death. No, that’s unfair—this place isn’t death, this place is indifference. This place is utterly neutral on the question of whether he lives or dies; it doesn’t care about his last name or where he went to school; it hasn’t even noticed him.
Sea of Tranquility (2022)
There occurred an incident that struck me at the time as some kind of supernatural event, but seems to me in retrospect to have been perhaps some kind of fit.
Sea of Tranquility (2022)
She never dwelt on my lapses, and I couldn’t entirely parse why this made me feel so awful. There’s a low-level, specific pain in having to accept that putting up with you requires a certain generosity of spirit in your loved ones.
Sea of Tranquility (2022)
“You know the phrase I keep thinking about?” a poet asked, on a different panel, at a festival in Copenhagen. “‘The chickens are coming home to roost.’ Because it’s never good chickens. It’s never ‘You’ve been a good person and now your chickens are coming home to roost.’ It’s never good chickens. It’s always bad chickens.”
Sea of Tranquility (2022)
It’s shocking to wake up in one world and find yourself in another by nightfall, but the situation isn’t actually all that unusual. You wake up married, then your spouse dies over the course of the day; you wake up in peacetime and by noon your country is at war; you wake up in ignorance and by the evening it’s clear that a pandemic is already here.
Sea of Tranquility (2022)