There are people who meet strangers and people, like me, who know only those they’ve known from birth — Dave Eggers

What did we want? We want the world smaller and bigger and just the same but advancing. We don’t know what we want.

I was feeling everything too much. Everything was pulling at my eyes.

Hand took a breath and opened his palms, as if accepting the gift of rain. "YOU SHALL KNOW OUR VELOCITY!" he bellowed into the cold exhausted city.