“You won't remember me. You won't need me anymore. You will leave me again. I forgive you. I forgave you. I will… — Julio-Alexi Genao Copy Share Image
“this world is larger than your heart still larger than your pain— but know this: everything ends so let what remains of… — Julio-Alexi Genao Love Copy Share Image
“Not your distress. Never that. I loved— I loved being there. Next to you. The pile of limbs that was Us. Together… — Julio-Alexi Genao Angst Copy Share Image
“You’re safe, here.” “But you are not,” you whispered. “Not ever. I forget. I forget and then I’ll—I could kill you.” When… — Julio-Alexi Genao Vulnerability Copy Share Image
“I’d removed all but my underclothes, that night I took you home. Took off all the drab corporate synthetics as if stripping… — Julio-Alexi Genao Copy Share Image
“I wanted to take your hand into mine and kiss it. I never dared.” — Julio-Alexi Genao Desire Copy Share Image
“You should know that for a little while, you were not alone. Not alone.” — Julio-Alexi Genao Copy Share Image
“It's like a—like a video panel, you know that? Your face. I don’t think you realize how much of what happens inside… — Julio-Alexi Genao Copy Share Image
“All the enormous machines that keep full Citizens comfortable far above us in their glittering towers, all the infrastructure of power, of… — Julio-Alexi Genao Business Copy Share Image
“I loved you even when you forgot me. And—for a little while—you loved me back.” — Julio-Alexi Genao Unrequited love Copy Share Image
“But it turns out Joy is a house built from the same bricks as Sorrow. Pleasure is a poem, and it uses… — Julio-Alexi Genao Emotion Copy Share Image
“The second day, I watched you suffer through one of your nightmares, but this one was worse than I’d seen before. You… — Julio-Alexi Genao Another man Copy Share Image
“For one unbelievable moment, the emptiness— the ache —that terrible hollow of desolation I’d lived with all this time was just –… — Julio-Alexi Genao Time Copy Share Image
“My skin hungered for you. You were warm, and alive, and in my bed, and I wanted you so bad I could… — Julio-Alexi Genao Desire Copy Share Image
“They’d come for you, and this time they’d come with weapons. I was afraid of that. For you. But not of you.… — Julio-Alexi Genao Fear Copy Share Image
“So. Monday. We meet again. We will never be friends—but maybe we can move past our mutual enmity toward a more-positive partnership.” — Julio-Alexi Genao Friendship Copy Share Image
“I watched you roll off me and step away from the bed in silence, but when the heat of your body was… — Julio-Alexi Genao Desire Copy Share Image
“I’m nothing, here. A lowly surveillance analyst. Being the hero could have meant something good for me. Could have changed my whole… — Julio-Alexi Genao Hero Copy Share Image
“That’s why I was calm. When you woke me in the middle of the night with your hand around my throat, and… — Julio-Alexi Genao Life Copy Share Image
“The outside of you had peeled away, and I could see your insides as clear as my own hand in my lap,… — Julio-Alexi Genao Copy Share Image
“You let me set the water in the shower, and followed me into the booth to stand there with me under the… — Julio-Alexi Genao Love Copy Share Image
“Undertown. You maybe don’t remember it. Your clothes don’t smell of it. Of the filth, the rot. The stinking hell of vapor… — Julio-Alexi Genao Copy Share Image
“You don't get to choose who turns you into a maniac. They just do, and you're just fucked, and the rest is… — Julio-Alexi Genao Damage control Copy Share Image
