29 Quotes by Julio-Alexi Genao

I didn’t know what to do.I knew what I wanted to do. I knew what I was supposed to do.But I didn’t know what I was going to do.

I was asked a series of questions.What did you see? Why are there no files in the video archives? How did the assassin escape? I lied every time.

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.

They’d come for you, and this time they’d come with weapons.I was afraid of that. For you. But not of you.Never afraid of you.

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.

You don't get to choose who turns you into a maniac.They just do, and you're just fucked, and the rest is just damage control.

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.

You let me set the water in the shower, and followed me into the booth to stand there with me under the warm spray. You kept your head down, not looking me in the eyes—though if you were shy, I couldn’t tell. You had no reason to be. You know what you look like.I know you don’t remember what we did.I want to tell you.

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