Absentia (I) (2011)

Courtney Bell: Tricia

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• Tricia : Don't underestimate the attraction of oblivion... not 'til you've lived a little longer.

• Callie : Tricia, every culture in the history of our species has had mythology about creatures that spirit people away, that take them into some unreal underworld, enslave them, brutalize them...

  Tricia : ...easier to embrace a nightmare than accept how stupid, how simple reality is some times...

  Callie : The Scandinavian Vinder-folk Troll legends, the Egyptian insect demons, the Banshee, the Wendigo, there's a common thread to all of this...! They're just... finding... 'kay. Dark Matter. Tangential dimensions. If everything is made of atoms, and atoms are mostly empty space, how is anything really solid? Things go missing in this neighborhood, and have for as long as history has recorded it, and those things turn up in one place.

• Tricia : So, you just sit here and think?

  Tricia : Kind of. Really you try and free yourself from attachments. Sources of suffering.

  Callie : Which is nothing, right?

  Tricia : Don't underestimate the attraction of oblivion. Not until you've lived a little longer.

• Tricia : I think I'm just so fucking done with this one. It's just so night and fucking day from what I set out for. I mean, how the Hell was I supposed to know it would end up like this? I mean, how the Hell are we supposed to know?

• Tricia : I didn't mean to call you prodigal or hit you.

  Callie : I know. I am, though.

  Tricia : I think you have the right idea sometimes. You just point yourself towards some unknown horizon and try to get untangled. I never thought less of you for whatever types of escapes you were able to find.