Author: David Payne
Quotes of Author: David Payne
Once upon a time, in the Official Version, we were blessed and happy, our parents young, privileged and good-looking, we, their children, bound for special destinies like they'd had. In Boston, our ship struck the iceberg and went down in an hour, but all hands appeared to make to the lifeboats. The trip to shore proves long, and only when we finally muster do we realize one of us is missing. book-quoteShe's trying to coax me away from him, speaking in a gentle voice, the way you'd speak to a child or to a frightened animal, not condescending, just gently, respectfully coaxing me to rise and come away and leave my brother here, and I know what this coaxing means, somewhere inside I do in the small, small place where I'm still sane, the small, small place where I'm not casting ancient spells of prophylaxis and reversal according to the ur-control scenario, where is where I am right now, in the magic kingdom that I'm the king and only god of, where nothing ever happens except as I command it, and nothing can ever hurt me so long as I stay inside the magic circle, and maybe that's why something inside me larger than I am bids me to go back now to that awful scene upon that awful highway to suffer now what I didn't suffer then because I wasn't really there the first time. And though I'm not really there, I know what her expression means, this stranger's, and I'm not having it, not from her or anyone, I don't want to be awakened" book-quote
