6 Quotes by James Smythe

People talk to pets and babies to stop themselves going mad.

What do you know of death? I have asked him.I've lived it, he says.

...you surrounded yourself with people who nodded at you, who protected you, until your own mind gave way under the weight of your own pig-headedness.

That we were made in his image. This is the next stage: after clones and gene therapy: we are changing what that image is.

COMMIT. PURGE. REPLENISH.

One of the pamphlets is called YOU, YOUR PARTNER AND THE MACHINE. She flicks through it, and it’s full of pictures of loving couples where she cannot tell which one of them is vacant and which one is just doting.