Jack Steen > Quotes

“Death isn't the end. It’s only the beginning. A new beginning for both the soul that passed on and for those left behind.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions

“It's amazing what someone can get away with when all they do is smile, look you straight in the eye, and make you believe every single lie they tell. Not everyone can do that.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions

“The confession from JD deals with victims and survivors of rape. No gory details are included, mainly because they aren’t necessary. But I did want to warn you in case you are a survivor. For the record, and in case you need to hear it - you are one hell of a person. You are amazing; you are a god or goddess, and you have a strength most of us can never understand, and the fact that you are here, reading this, tells me just how freaking amazing you are. Now, I’m not going to assume”
― Jack Steen, Murder for Hire

“Death should be the catalyst for you to yearn more from life.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions

“but because we understood that in death, there is life.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions

“Death can stop you from living, but it shouldn't. Death should be the catalyst for you to yearn more from life.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions

“One person's truth and the real truth are often two different things, have you ever noticed that? For some, their ability to lie is so commonplace that they fall into their own trap of believing the lie.”
― Jack Steen, Family Matters

“We all have our reasons why we force ourselves to walk through the gates of whatever hell we think we deserve.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions

“learned the hard way that the only person who will praise you as you deserve is you. No one else cares - not truly. So, since that’s the case, you might as well make sure that everything you do makes you happy.”
― Jack Steen, Till Death Do Us Part

“Not because we fancied ourselves to be more than we were. But because we understood that in death, there is life. Think about that for a moment. Death isn't the end. It’s only the beginning. A new beginning for both the soul that passed on and for those left behind.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions

“Sometimes, there is no war between nature and nurture. Sometimes they work hand-in-hand.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions

“I didn’t do it for the money. I did it because I could. Because I knew what to do and how to do it, and I did it very well.”
― Jack Steen, Murder for Hire

“Maybe nurture would have become my nature.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions

“He had skin of black satin with a smile to swoon most”
― Jack Steen, The Color of Death is Red

“Eating human-fed pig meat can harm a person in many ways. Prion diseases can be manifested with symptoms of hallucinations, dementia, difficulty walking with muscle soreness, and confusion, among the few.”
― Jack Steen, Family Matters

“A confession for a death. You told me that's how you do it.”
― Jack Steen, Cults

“That’s something no one should ever tell another parent. Never tell someone who grieves that their heart will heal.”
― Jack Steen, Family Matters

“Politics isn’t my thing. Never has been. They’re all garbage crawlers, the lowest of the lows, even if they are living the high life.”
― Jack Steen, Murder for Hire

“They were sick but held no fear of death, knowing the energies from their decaying bodies would feed the soil and in turn, take care of their families.”
― Jack Steen, The Color of Death is Red

“We all need hope. But before that hope within us can bear any fruit, there first must be pain.”
― Jack Steen, The Color of Death is Red

“There’s something about Bucket that makes a man go soft, you know? Not that kind of soft. Get your fucking head out of the gutter.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions

“Do you know why we say God bless you when someone sneezes? Funny fact—when you sneeze”
― Jack Steen, Till Death Do Us Part

“Not everyone deserves to be a parent, Jack.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions

“Fuckermarole? Who the fuck cares if that’s not a word. I used it. It’s a word to me. Fuck off.”
― Jack Steen, The Color of Death is Red

“The heart is the essence of a person, it’s who they are at the core, without the dressings, without the masks, without the persona they feel they need to be.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions

“shifts. Are serial killers born or made? Are murderers circumstantial or a part of a characteristic they're born with?”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions

“You said something to me that has settled it’s claw into my soul and won’t leave me alone.”
― Jack Steen, The Color of Death is Red

“The warden wants to eat at the fucking big kids’ table, doesn’t he?”
― Jack Steen, Murder for Hire

“All your life you’ve been considered different, an outsider, and then finally you find someone, who understands you, who confirms your difference is actually uniqueness that others can’t handle, and they love you for who you are, not for who they try to make you to be.”
― Jack Steen, The Color of Death is Red

“My epiphany was that God wanted me to bring salvation through pain back to His children.”
― Jack Steen, The Color of Death is Red