"Severance" Quotes

There was always a certain romance in the idea of a city, but the reality was a different matter.

We are the last generation to have known the world before the fever.

Sometimes I felt like I was a big beautiful machine, a Frank Lloyd Wright house, with the windows open and the wind blowing through.

The city was a bulb, a crucible, a dream, a hope, a promise.

There was a kind of beauty in destruction, in the way that time moved on and took everything with it.

We were all dispensable, and that was the truth.

It was a kind of luxury, to not have to think about the rest of the world.

The past was a foreign country and this was the present, and it wasn’t so bad.

There was a sense of emptiness, of having become untethered.

There was a world outside of the office, but that world didn’t care about you.