“Desire makes idiots of all of us.”
“Let them hate, so long as they fear.”
“The dead know everything, but don't give a damn.”
“Of all the riches he possesses, the right to complain is his most treasured.”
“Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?”
“I won't be okay, but I will be better”
“The very shapes of the trees were like frozen screams.”
“They tried to kill me, [ name ], that means I get to try to kill them.”
“Anything is better than lies and deceit!”
“You were the centre of my universe and everything else spun around you.”
“I’m hopelessly in love with him.”
“Perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
“Don’t let anyone in on how much you know. That upper hand will be the one that saves you.”
“It’s violent work that sustains the fantasy.”
“To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defies our boundaries and illuminates our souls.”
“We're here to make magic with words”
“It's an ancient technique known as lying, [ name ].”
“Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.”
“I am the only one who gets to decide what is in my best interest. Not you, [ name ].”
“Name one hero who was happy.”
“No mourners. No funerals.”
“I want to survive this world that keeps trying to destroy me.”
“Fear and guilt are sisters.”
“Books are meant to be touched, otherwise they’re useless.”
“Didn’t someone say love is a shared delusion?”
“I am made of memories.”
“Be glad of your human heart, [ name ]. Pity those who don’t feel anything at all.”
“Wherever we are, we want to be somewhere else.”
“They are not terrible. They are just the truth.”
“I didn’t hurt her. I loved her.”
“You never know what you are going to want until you see it clearly.”
“I've spent the last fortnight fearing you would destroy me. You may still.”
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
“If 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.”
“We are all someone's monster.”
“Always look on the bright side. And if there is no bright side? Look away.”
“Are you now so deluded you think you exist outside the category of everything?”
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
“Men mock the gods until they need them.”
“They tell you revenge isn't worth it. I say there's nothing finer.”
“Be selfish, be brave.”
“A bad memory shared between two people carries with it only half the pain.”
“I am a kind of stray cat, aren’t I?”
“The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.”
“People do not know what to make of me, and this pleases me. I don't want to be scrutable.”
“It’s hard to accept what you don’t want to see.”
“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
“Despite logical input from a conscious mind, a body fears what it fears.”
“I feel like I could eat the world raw.”
“Mors irrumat omnia. Death fucks us all.”
“…there is no such thing as humane colonization.”
“I have done at least one good thing: become a person my father would hate.”
“I'm a business man, no more, no less.”
“Clever folk aren’t popular, by and large. They arouse suspicion. They don’t fit in.”