# The Space Between Worlds  Author:: Micaiah Johnson ## Highlights > They needed trash people. Poor black and brown people. People somehow on the “wrong side” of the wall, even though they were the ones who built it. People brought for labor, or come for refuge, or who were here before the first neoliberal surveyed this land and thought to build a paradise. People who’d already thought this was paradise. They needed my people. They needed me. ([Location 108](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08191MPPS&location=108)) > The clothes I have to wear today are monochromatic and androgynous. Subconsciously or deliberately, the people in this section of 238 have rebelled against their government’s surveillance by refusing to stand out. ([Location 713](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08191MPPS&location=713)) > When the recruitment campaign began, we learned Eldridge needed a very select group of people—those who lived with enough risk to have died over and over and over again…but had somehow survived here. ([Location 2400](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08191MPPS&location=2400)) > There is no sound of distress from my mother at putting Esther in danger. ([Location 3326](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08191MPPS&location=3326)) > Murder has a cycle just like water. In the same way water becomes a cloud, then becomes water again, when blood calls for vengeance the blood from that vengeance calls too. If you plan to give death, it will always return to you. ([Location 3987](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08191MPPS&location=3987)) > But there is also a world, and maybe there is only one, where a Wileyite girl comes into this garden and takes my hand. Where she reminds me there’s more than one type of visa, where we buy an apartment on the edge, because I still work in Ashtown and because that is where half of our children will be from. Where I am always too rough and she is always too proper and it is a tension that keeps us interested far longer than lust. It is only one world in infinite universes where this impossible happiness exists, but that is what makes it so valuable. ([Location 4960](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08191MPPS&location=4960)) --- Title: The Space Between Worlds Author: Micaiah Johnson Tags: readwise, books date: 2024-01-30 --- # The Space Between Worlds  Author:: Micaiah Johnson ## AI-Generated Summary None ## Highlights > They needed trash people. Poor black and brown people. People somehow on the “wrong side” of the wall, even though they were the ones who built it. People brought for labor, or come for refuge, or who were here before the first neoliberal surveyed this land and thought to build a paradise. People who’d already thought this was paradise. They needed my people. They needed me. ([Location 108](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08191MPPS&location=108)) > The clothes I have to wear today are monochromatic and androgynous. Subconsciously or deliberately, the people in this section of 238 have rebelled against their government’s surveillance by refusing to stand out. ([Location 713](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08191MPPS&location=713)) > When the recruitment campaign began, we learned Eldridge needed a very select group of people—those who lived with enough risk to have died over and over and over again…but had somehow survived here. ([Location 2400](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08191MPPS&location=2400)) > There is no sound of distress from my mother at putting Esther in danger. ([Location 3326](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08191MPPS&location=3326)) > Murder has a cycle just like water. In the same way water becomes a cloud, then becomes water again, when blood calls for vengeance the blood from that vengeance calls too. If you plan to give death, it will always return to you. ([Location 3987](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08191MPPS&location=3987)) > But there is also a world, and maybe there is only one, where a Wileyite girl comes into this garden and takes my hand. Where she reminds me there’s more than one type of visa, where we buy an apartment on the edge, because I still work in Ashtown and because that is where half of our children will be from. Where I am always too rough and she is always too proper and it is a tension that keeps us interested far longer than lust. It is only one world in infinite universes where this impossible happiness exists, but that is what makes it so valuable. ([Location 4960](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08191MPPS&location=4960))