“As far as all of our identities are dependent on how other people imagine us we are all making ourselves and each other up all the time”
“I can't imagine us saying these things to each other out loud. But even if I can't imagine hearing these words, I can imagine living them. I don't even picture it. Instead I'm in it. How I feel with him here. That peace. It would be so happy, and it makes me sad because it only exists in words.”
“We can hear others, and we can travel with them without moving, and we can imagine them, and we are all connected one to the other by a crazy root system, like so many leaves of grass. But the game makes me wonder wheter we can really ever fully become another.”
“I pointed at the little kids goading each other to jump from rib cage to shoulder and Gus answered just loud enough for me to hear over the din, 'Last time, I imagined myself as the kid. This time, the skeleton.”
“In the end it reveals a lot more about the person doing the imagining than it does about the person being imagined.”
“And maybe by imagining these futures we can make it real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them.”