If you can’t know the truth, said Isolde, live the most awesome lie you can think off.
Here was something that I did all the time, and thought nothing of it, and it turns out the rest of the world thinks it’s completely reprehensible. That’s when I knew I needed to change, so I started making rules. The first one was; Don’t mess with animals.
I guess all we have left are awesome dreams.
It’s not John who wants to cut his mother into tiny pieces, it’s Mr. Monster. See? I feel better already.
Freedom is a responsibility to be earned, not a license for recklessness and anarchy. If someday, despite our strongest efforts and our deepest determination, we finally fall, let it be because our enemies finally beat us, not because we beat ourselves.
You make your own choices, Kira, and you can’t let anyone ever take that away from you.
Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don’t.
The monster behind the wall stirred. I’d come to think of it as a monster, but it was just me. Or the darker part of me, at least. You probably think it would be creepy to have a real monster hiding inside of you, but trust me – it’s far, far worse when the monster is really just your own mind. Calling it a monster seemed to distance it a little, which made me feel better about it. Not much better, but I take what I can get.
Dead bodies are calm and silent – perfectly still, perfectly harmless. A corpse will never move, it will never laugh, and it will never judge. A corpse will never shout at you, hit you, or leave you. Far away from the zombies and junk that you see on TV, a corpse is actually the perfect friend. The perfect pet. I feel more comfortable with them than I do with real people.
You don’t have to march into hell every single time they open the gate.
You don’t apologize for this Samm, it’s love, and love doesn’t weigh it’s options and pick the best one. Love just wants things and it doesn’t know why, and it doesn’t matter why, because love is the only explanation love needs.
I never thought I had a heart until it was broken. It’s hard to see the point of something that only ever causes pain.
Life isn’t a thing, it’s a condition; we switch it on and we switch it off.
People are always afraid of other things, they are never afraid of themselves.
It’s not that,” said Samm, “it’s just... I used to think the world was worse for what we’ve done, both our species, but out here I don’t think the world even cares who we are. Or were. We came and went, and life goes on, and the land that was always here before us will still be here after we’re dead and gone. Birds will still fly. Rain will still fall. The world didn’t end, it just... reset.
Somehow it felt appropriate that the only person who thought I was sweet was a woman who lived with a demon.
That figures,” said Mom, stepping in from the landing and closing the door. “The only member of this family with a normal relationship is a sociopath.
I promised a friend I’d walk through hell to get her back,′ I said. ‘Don’t make me bring you with me.
People wanted the explanation to be as big and flashy as the killings themselves, but the truth was far more terrifying: true terror doesn’t come from giant monsters but from small, innocent-looking people.
That chick makes the monsters under my bed have nightmares.