Video Game, 2022
If destiny can’t be altered – if you are truly doomed – you’d at least like to see the glint of its eyes.
Watching tourists pose in front of the Perfect Tides “Family Community” sign:
If such a place exists in space and time – a place where the sum of your being is welcome, correct – then surely you must spend your life looking for it.
Robert: “I’ve never seen you here before. Me and Jason are here like every other night.”
Mara: “Me too. Maybe we both go every other night, but like, on opposite nights.”
STaggle: “Me too. God, it was like a dream come true. It was like I made this place exist with my brain.”
Trying to set an example for Timothy, you very maturely place your cereal bowl in the sink, where somehow or another, at a later time, it will be cleaned.
Lily and Mara, on shrooms, talking about going inside the nightclub:
Lily: “Really?? You went in??”
Mara: “What’s so surprising about that?”
Lily: “I dunno… just seems like you’d be scared to, uh…”
“You know, that’s not fair. I’m sorry for making that assumption.”
Mara: “I’m not offended. You have every reason to think I’d be scared, based on my history.”
Lily: “You’ve changed, it’s true.”
Mara: “It feels like we’ve both changed.”
Giving Mara’s mom the photos of Mara’s dad on the beach:
Mara: “You remember that day?”
Mara’s mom: “Yes. But not as well as I’d like. I didn’t know then how precious it was.”
“Now I have a little of it back.”
On peeking behind the shower curtain to see if there’s a murderer: