“I have so many questions. Important questions!"
"I think we really have something here."
"I imagine all that could have been, and all that is now lost."
"The someday you’ve been waiting for is this day."
"We will all find out soon enough."
"They’re never going to believe this."
"They have our best interests at heart. I’m sure of it."
"You will persist—ever so faintly, ever so slightly—on into perpetuity. Long after everything about you no longer matters."
"We are eternal, but we will not last."
"No one can make your destiny for you."
"Now is the time, I’m sure."
"Everything seems to be in order—in that I am nervous and uncertain and feel an emptiness sometimes which can never be filled."
"I have felt disconnected lately. My being has been split between the here and the now, and the there and the now."
"And I’ve never felt more at home."
"We were safe all along."
"It does sound nicer than I remember."
"But it’s hard to know how much meeting eyes or touching hands means until it’s gone."
"What makes you you? How are you able to acknowledge that you are even a thing, separate from the rest of the Universe?"
"But I don’t know. I can’t feel or see that, so—not really my problem now, is it."
"That’s the best part about the future. Anything you want to be possible is possible. As long as you don’t think about it too hard."
"It is a sadness, what we do to each other."
"This is starting to freak me out a little."
"This was supposed to be a fun and challenging exercise, but now I’m questioning everything about my self and my life."
"Nevermind. That doesn’t matter.”
“Nothing exists for you outside of my voice saying it does."
"But I miss—you know—touching. I miss this."
"Is anyone even listening to this?"
"Thank you for keeping me safe."
"So that seems to be another crisis averted."
"Perhaps we will never know anything. We have certainly never known anything yet."
"If only there was something I could do for you."
"Is there any trace of your old self left?"
"Well, uh, this is it. One way or another, here I go."
"But I can’t help it; I just get all worked up about a lack of coffee!"
"It’s fine. I’ll be fine."
"I do not know where I am."
"Nothing is as it seems. We’ve all been duped by God, all is lost, blah, blah, something, something, living nightmares."
"I can’t wait much longer."
"You’re not the only one who cares about her, you know."
"For this, I am sorry. I will try harder."
"This is the last time. Okay?"
"What—what is happening to me?"
"We’re sorry. We’re so sorry. But this is the only way.”