Stephen Snyder

  • Yokosquawhas quoted8 months ago
    Though I’ve tried, I’ve found no way to fill in the voids left by the Memory Police.
  • ;has quoted2 years ago
    Lying still, eyes closed, ears pricked, trying to sense the flow of the morning air, you’ll feel that something has changed from the night before, and you’ll know that you’ve lost something, that something has been disappeared from the island
  • ;has quoted2 years ago
    Soon enough, things are back to normal, as though nothing has happened, and no one can even recall what it was that disappeared.
  • ;has quoted2 years ago
    We gathered on the banks of the river with our perfume. Then we opened the bottles and poured out their contents, watching the perfume dissolve in the water like some worthless liquid. Some girls held the bottles up to their noses one last time—but the ability to smell the perfume had already faded, along with all memory of what it had meant.
  • ;has quoted2 years ago
    Even when the new job was less well paid, they seemed to have no regrets about losing the old one. Of course, had they complained, they might have attracted the attention of the Memory Police.
  • ;has quoted2 years ago
    “And good riddance. I doubt anyone will miss them.”
  • ;has quoted2 years ago
    The first duty of the Memory Police was to enforce the disappearances.
  • ;has quoted2 years ago
    I stood in the middle of that emptiness, feeling myself on the verge of being drawn into its terrible depth.
  • ;has quoted2 years ago
    Though I’ve tried, I’ve found no way to fill in the voids left by the Memory Police.
  • ;has quoted2 years ago
    “There aren’t many people who can sit all day at a desk and make up such complicated things right out of their head. If your parents were here to see you, they would be so proud.”
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