βDesire makes idiots of all of us.β
βLet them hate, so long as they fear.β
βThe dead know everything, but don't give a damn.β
βOf all the riches he possesses, the right to complain is his most treasured.β
βAm I walking toward something I should be running away from?β
βI won't be okay, but I will be betterβ
βThe very shapes of the trees were like frozen screams.β
βThey tried to kill me, [ name ], that means I get to try to kill them.β
βAnything is better than lies and deceit!β
βYou were the centre of my universe and everything else spun around you.β
βIβm hopelessly in love with him.β
βPerhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.β
βDonβt let anyone in on how much you know. That upper hand will be the one that saves you.β
βItβs violent work that sustains the fantasy.β
βTo learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defies our boundaries and illuminates our souls.β
βWe're here to make magic with wordsβ
βIt's an ancient technique known as lying, [ name ].β
βChange isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.β
βI am the only one who gets to decide what is in my best interest. Not you, [ name ].β
βName one hero who was happy.β
βNo mourners. No funerals.β
βI want to survive this world that keeps trying to destroy me.β
βFear and guilt are sisters.β
βBooks are meant to be touched, otherwise theyβre useless.β
βDidnβt someone say love is a shared delusion?β
βI am made of memories.β
βBe glad of your human heart, [ name ]. Pity those who donβt feel anything at all.β
βWherever we are, we want to be somewhere else.β
βThey are not terrible. They are just the truth.β
βI didnβt hurt her. I loved her.β
βYou never know what you are going to want until you see it clearly.β
βI've spent the last fortnight fearing you would destroy me. You may still.β
βNo live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.β
βIf you ever loved me, it was because I was a soft thing you threw down into the bottom of a pit to break your fall.β
βWe are all someone's monster.β
βAlways look on the bright side. And if there is no bright side? Look away.β
βAre you now so deluded you think you exist outside the category of everything?β
βNot all those who wander are lost.β
βMen mock the gods until they need them.β
βThey tell you revenge isn't worth it. I say there's nothing finer.β
βBe selfish, be brave.β
βA bad memory shared between two people carries with it only half the pain.β
βI am a kind of stray cat, arenβt I?β
βThe heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.β
βPeople do not know what to make of me, and this pleases me. I don't want to be scrutable.β
βItβs hard to accept what you donβt want to see.β
βHe is half of my soul, as the poets say.β
βDespite logical input from a conscious mind, a body fears what it fears.β
βI feel like I could eat the world raw.β
βMors irrumat omnia. Death fucks us all.β
ββ¦there is no such thing as humane colonization.β
βI have done at least one good thing: become a person my father would hate.β
βI'm a business man, no more, no less.β
βClever folk arenβt popular, by and large. They arouse suspicion. They donβt fit in.β