Julio Alexi Genao Quotes

The best sci-fi stories use the fantastical to remind us of the reality of who we are today, the hope of who we may become tomorrow, and the shame of who we were yesterday.

I know you’ve forgotten me, but I’ll remember you as long as I live.

I loved you even when you forgot me.And—for a little while—you loved me back.

the only thing worse than a bigot is an “ally” who can’t stop congratulating themselves on their enlightenment.

I’m nothing, here. A lowly surveillance analyst. Being the hero could have meant something good for me. Could have changed my whole

I gave you all my secrets, and you lost them all. You lost a lot of things.But the treasure of it was in the giving, not the keeping.

I didn’t know what

I was asked a series of ques

Not your distress. Never that. I loved— I loved being there. Next to you. The pile of limbs that was Us. Together in the same bed. Even if it meant waking up with a few new bruises.

what it is is the memory of a dance a song you heard long ago to hear it is to be young again and for once for once you are happy

So. Monday. We meet again.We will never be friends—but maybe we can move past our mutual enmity toward a more-positive partnership.

I wanted to take your hand into mine and kiss it.I never dared.

I watched you roll off me and step away from the bed in silence, but when the heat of your body was gone, I wanted it back.

The second day, I watched you suffer through one of your nightmares, but this one was worse than I’d seen before. You called out another man’s name.

people say life is

But it turns out Joy is a house built from the same bricks as Sorrow. Pleasure is a poem, and it uses the same words as Pain.

don’t tell me not to drink. not to smoke. not to grieve. if i speak of these things it’s because i have to— but i am not speaking to you.

They’d come for you, and this time they’d come with we