Absentia (I) (2011)

Katie Parker: Callie

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• Callie : I'm gonna shower. I smell like an armpit's asshole.

• 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.

• Callie : You know, the church says that some people have what they call "victim souls". Just some people that God lets, He lets, the devils and the demons do their thing. Like they're destined for torment with some great reward in Heaven.

• 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 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.