* ARTIFICIAL

I do not believe any of us could have anticipated the threat.

There’s what we’re looking for. Unless we are having a mass hallucination.

I’m excited by this discovery. Are you excited, too?

That’s how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.

Silence creates its own violence.

Some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.

There are certain kinds of deaths that one should not be expected to re-live, connections that are so deep that when broken you feel the snap of the link inside you.

You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why.

What can you do when your five senses are not enough?

You can either waste time worrying about a death that might not come or concentrate on what’s left to you.

I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, yes. Promises, no.

Perhaps my only real expertise, my only talent, is to endure beyond the endurable.

When you are too close to the center of a mystery there is no way to pull back and see the shape of it entire.

I hate words like ‘love’.

I still remember a gentler world. 

So long as you don’t tell people you don’t know something, they’ll probably think you know it.

We all just want to be people, and none of us know what that really means.

What’s your passion? Do even you know?

At the time, I was seeking oblivion, and I sought in those blank, anonymous faces, even the most painfully familiar, a kind of benign escape. A death that would not mean being dead.

Do you prefer to be ignorant or unsafe? 

The trees are not trees the birds are not birds, and I am not me but just something that has been walking for a very long time…

This part I will do alone, leaving you behind. Don’t follow.

It’s superstition - but it might be true.

Honesty is often just another way to be cruel.

I don’t cultivate friends; I just inherit them from other people.

I’m not the answer to all your problems.

My room is a mess and I lie sometimes and I’m not always nice to people but that’s the idea.

Has there always been someone like me to bury the bodies, to have regrets, to carry on after everyone else was dead?

Some things came to you late, but late was better than never.

I really wanted to lose myself.

What’s wrong with asking questions?

People my entire life have told me I am too much in control, but that has never been the case. I have never truly been in control, have never wanted control.

You guard the light. And light sees everything.

Don’t let them ask questions. You’re already giving them the answers, even if they don’t know it.

The world we are a part of now is difficult to accept, unimaginably difficult. I don’t know if I accept everything even now.

Sometimes you need to know when to go on to the next thing–for the sake of other people.

I doubt you’ll enjoy it.

You have to trust I know where I’m going. I always know where I’m going.

You never seem to see yourself clearly, do you?

I don’t care for your belief system.

You’re on your own, like you’ve always been on your own. 

I’m gonna tear up the fucking dance floor, dude. Check it out.

              “ isn’t it strange                to create something that hates you? ”

SAN JUNIPERO SENTENCE MEME.  feel free to change context / pronouns as applicable. 

gotta love that track!

could you please stop it?

we’ve only got a couple of hours, so let’s use it.

you’re good at this.

i just wanna get my bearings a bit.

see you around?

go along with whatever i say!

okay, you’re just pestering now.

sorry for killing you.

if you don’t already know what _____ is, you probably don’t wanna know.

i’m regarding you.

i feel like i’m being analysed. 

i guess now they’re just kind of a comfort thing.

i figured they were kind of a fashion statement. but then the rest of your outfit is… not.

people try so hard to look how they think they should look.

you’re authentically you.

do you live here?

oh, my god! we have to dance to this!

dance floors aren’t my thing.

oh, let’s not limit ourselves.

why did you run away?

you were like a frightened horse on a frozen lake back there.

i’m kidding! … half kidding.

folks are way less uptight than they used to be.

if they were staring, it’s because i am bodacious.

i’ve never been on a dance floor.

what are you, like, amish? that’s one sheltered existence you’ve got there.

as far as my family’s concerned, i can’t do anything.

no one knows about even half the shit i get up to.

it’s from a place of love, though, right?

just the concept of me enjoying myself would blow their minds.

what would you like to do? that you’ve never done?

why waste time sitting here?

i’m, uh, i’m engaged. i have a fiance.

wanna go to bed with me?

oh… you’re nice.

can you hear me out? please? please.

look, i don’t want some kind of boring romance, okay?

it’s not just sex.

it was just sex.

we made a connection.

waiting for someone?

shall we dance?

can you just make this easy for me?

you never slept with a woman before?

i was in love with him. i really was in love with him.

i really was in love with him… but he chose not to stick around.

she’s worth the shot, right?

i’m sorry, i’m looking for someone.

why are you here?

i was looking for you. where did you go?

how the hell is this your era?

you don’t know who i am! you don’t know what this means!

this is not fun, okay? this is not fun! 

maybe you should feel bad. or at least feel something.

how many of them are dead?

i said i wouldn’t… i don’t know, do feelings. 

i don’t want to like anyone. so you’ve been just totally fucking inconvenient.

i wasn’t prepared for you, for wanting something.

i’m getting married.

you sure you’re going through with that?

i know he pities me. that pisses me off.

without this place, i never would’ve met someone like you.

if we really met– i mean if we really met– you wouldn’t like me.

i’ll give you some privacy. 

you’re ____? holy shit.

let’s go grab a coffee.

wanna marry me instead?

are you sure you’re alright?

you didn’t dress up to see me?

oh, i love it here! i just love it!

be with me.

stay here with me.

can we just enjoy tonight?

who can even make sense of forever?

hey, it’s real! this is real.

come on, you know that was just a gesture.

it’s not so kind to leave.

we got this chance! i just wanna share it with you. 

he could have stayed, but he chose to leave you.

you don’t know what you’re saying.

you should be mad at him, not whipping yourself with guilt!

you can’t know the bond, the commitment, the boredom, the yearning, the laughter, the love of it! the fucking love! you just cannot know!

did you think to ask? did it occur to you to ask?

you think you’re the only person who ever suffered? go fuck yourself.

i wish i could believe he’s with her now, that they’re together, but i don’t. i believe they’re nowhere. gone.

you wanna spend forever somewhere nothing matters?

i’m out! i’m gone! 

all things considered, i guess i’m ready. 

“One day the AIs are going to look back on us the same way we look at fossil skeletons on the plains of Africa. An upright ape living in dust with crude language and tools, all set for extinction.”

❛ I am no bird, no net ensnares me. I am a free human being with an independent will. ❜

❛ I would always rather be happy than dignified. ❜

❛ Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? ❜

❛ I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. ❜

❛ I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. ❜

❛ You are my sympathy, my better self — I am bound to you. ❜

❛ I have, for the first time, found what I can truly love. I have found you. ❜

❛ And what is hell? Can you tell me that? ❜

❛ I am not an angel, and I will not be one till I die. I will be myself. ❜

❛ Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own, in pain and sickness it would still be dear. ❜

❛ He made me love him without looking at me. ❜

❛ Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice. ❜

❛ All my heart is yours, it belongs to you. And with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever. ❜

❛ I must have you. The world may laugh – may call me absurd, selfish – but it does not signify. My very soul demands you, it will either be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame. ❜

❛ Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine. ❜

❛ You know nothing about me, and nothing about the sort of love of which I am capable. ❜

❛ To attack the first is not to assail the last. ❜

❛ Conventionality is not morality. ❜

❛ It is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer. ❜

❛ I know I must conceal my sentiments — I must smother hope. ❜

❛ Who in the world cares for you? Who will be injured by what you do? ❜

❛ Beauty is in the eye of the gazer. ❜

❛ I will never again come to your side. I am torn away now, and cannot return. ❜

❛ Your will shall decide your destiny. ❜

❛ I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading. It vexes me to choose another guide. ❜

❛ Make my happiness and I will make yours. ❜

❛ What necessity is there to dwell on the past, when the present is so much surer, the future so much brighter? ❜

❛ I envy you, your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. ❜

❛ I never meant to wound you. Will you ever forgive me? ❜

One day the AIs are going to look back on us the same way we look at fossil skeletons on the plains of Africa. An upright ape living in dust with crude language and tools, all set for extinction.

Impulse. Response. Fluid. Imperfect. Patterned. Chaotic.