Vertigo

Book by Joanna Walsh · 14 quotes · Alien Invasion, Science Fiction, Space Opera

A suspenseful story that explores themes of obsession, identity, and the psychological effects of memory and perception.

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A suspenseful story that explores themes of obsession, identity, and the psychological effects of memory and perception.

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“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”

Stills Reading Thanks Evening Sane

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“There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain.”

Wells Numbers Cities Strange Vain Emptiness Telephones Vertigo

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“Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!”

Details Tiny

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“The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually happened in this or that way, for nothing about it could be called normal: most of it was absurd, and if not absurd, then appalling.”

Ifs Way Said Past Happened Normal Absurd Unlikely

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“Tudo parecia organizado da melhor forma possível, como se de fato o mundo constasse somente de palavras, como se assim o próprio horror fosse trazido para dimensões seguras, como se para cada aspecto de uma coisa houvesse um reverso, para cada mal um bem, para cada dissabor um prazer, para cada infelicidade uma felicidade e para cada mentira um quinhão de verdade.”

Truth Happiness Dictionary Portuguese

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“She burst into her hotel room pulling her blouse over her head with one hand while she yanked her shoes off with the other. No way was she going to face an alien invasion in heels and silk.”

Adventure Science Fiction Space Opera Alien Invasion

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“Above the curving arc of the planet, a mammoth explosion plumed crimson and charcoal then erupted in a starburst of crystaline white which for a microsecond shone brighter than a sun. For the briefest moment he allowed himself to entertain the notion that they might win this battle. Then the real battle began.”

Adventure Science Fiction Space Opera Alien Invasion

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“He did not have time to wallow, to give a moment’s thought to what may have happened to her or whether she was alive. Turn into the punch, grab hold of the gun, leap into the arena. Attack. He had to move. Now.”

Science Fiction Science Fiction Romance Space Opera Alien Invasion

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“Her weight settled on her back foot as she crossed her arms over her chest and stared at him, now legitimately baffled. “How delusional are you, aliens in your head notwithstanding?”

Adventure Science Fiction Space Opera Alien Invasion

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“The third person. There was no sign of this happiness on the outside, she knew. She was bored by this happiness that seemed out of place, impatient to get rid of it. The feeling was less pleasurable than she had imagined it might have been, less well-defined, and when she felt along its strings she found it was not easily traced or attached to the objects she thought it might have been attached to. Perhaps it was not attached to anything at all.”

Happiness Introspection Overthinking Moodiness Idle Thoughts Travel Anomie

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“There are so many of you, and you are still just the way I thought I'd grow up, with all that was enviably grown-up about you: the lace tops with modesty inserts, and the spangles as if for nights out, the stiff hair, the cardigans grown over with a fungus of secondary sexual characteristics--bristling with embroidery and drooping with labial frills.”

Family In Laws Unloved Relations

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“The bus stops and out get the sort of people who travel by bus between cities: students, old people--mainly women--and the middle-aged who cannot afford the train and who have never grown old enough to drive. Out we get, and away we go, the young, the old, and the failed girls.”

Maturity Vs Age Family Expectations Adult Failures

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“I am tired and drunk and still hungry. He is full of steak and Coca-Cola and, presumably, energy: enough energy to cross the road and walk up the steps inside the tower of the cathedral, which I have never entered.”

Paris Tourism Observer Instead Of Participant Frequent Visitor Solitary Diner

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“Theories: *During the off-months for the visitors, which are the on-months for the oysters, are the oysters packed in ice or tinned, and shipped to Paris? *During the off-months for the visitors, which are the on-months for the oysters, do the serving staff shuck shells? Or *During the off-months for the visitors, which are the on-months for the oysters, are the restaurant, and the oysters, abandoned, and the staff laid off?”

Mental Agony Worst Date Ever Just Shoot Him Already Severe Boredom

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