'We're all cursed'
‘Yes, we are; but what with?’
‘Cursed to feel the same thing, every day, over and over again, forever and ever. No new feelings, just microscopic variations of boredom.’
This extract is from 'Drowning is fine' by Darren Allen, chapter 3. A hilarious and insightful story about the modern world, would highly recommend. Here are some other gems (far too many to list here, every starting line of a chapter or sub-chapter is insanely good for instance):
‘I’ve lived with him for a year now,’ says Toby, ‘and I know as much about him as I know about Pac Man.’ ‘Constantly consuming. Needs power pills to combat ghosts.’ (Chapter 3)
Are we all too sensitive for the office? Are we all too brilliant for the factory? Are we all nsfw? (Chapter 3)
The pain is interesting though; I mean the emotion. In some way it’s hardly anything, a very slight sickness across the chest, a weight in the neck. You couldn’t even call it painful, not really—and yet it is the pit of horror. (Chapter 4)