Sun Moon > Quotes

“This story makes most people feel uncomfortable. Not because of what's in the story, but because of what's in the reader.”
― Justin Kelly, Goodbye Horses

“Life is a paranormal romance with ones own inner daemon. To not know this is to be doomed to kicking cans for a lifetime.”
― Justin Kelly

“Once again, the celestial wheel had turned, ushering in a new beginning. In those earliest days, the great I am was the what you can become, and the people of rose river were radiant reflecting the light of the stars in his eyes. With his coat of many colors, he had painted the world in his own image, upon the infinite ocean of time that has no meaning. And when the moon was full, he cultivated a beautiful garden, from whence, with ecstasy's cry, she brought forth the water of life.”
― Justin Kelly, The light of the stars in their eyes

“God is like a child, constantly in need of Love and guidance; being told what to do, what to think, what to believe. On closer inspection, we might find that every story ever written is but a moral on this very subject.”
― Justin Kelly

“The monsters of fantasy and horror are actually symbolism for the condition of the human spirit. Soul can not be killed, nor exorcized. To try is to poke the bear.”
― Justin Kelly

“for the briefest of moments
the two had become dry paint on stretched canvas
they were worlds fashioned from the same God
but completely dissimilar in design”
― Justin Kelly, Tree of Ashes

“In our personal spaces, where there are no eyes to guide our better nature caressing our intentions, we sometimes gnaw in the agonizing realization that, although we charitably took on the rough task with smiling faces, our condescension has produced our worst nightmare. For a new work has triggered our insecure buttons, birthing the fear that the author may flow past our selfish desires, and find their way into the ocean of our faith, leaving us alone and desperate. And so we must, with the extremest prejudice, bomb their potential future by damming all of our congratulations. Rendering Goodreads a stale pond of green algae and used condoms. But do we not know that this same pond we all must drink from? Instead of filing another dead weight upon our self-deprecation, we should condescend to our own little devils, transforming them into loving companions with our guidance, so they may sprout wings in our charity, by praising this new work loudly to all of our friends and acquaintances. Instead of a dam, we can fashion a fountain of ascension, whose poetic mead, we may all get drunk on. Then, one day, those that we have assisted, we may one day find them returning us the favor by building us a fountain. That's my opinion on the subject anyway. This has been an exercise in poetic articulation. Signing off.”
― Justin Kelly

“Peace is an affliction of those who no longer desire for things to be different than they are. What the hell is wrong with those people (tee-he-he)?”
― Justin Kelly

“The people, in their deafening blindness, groping about for answers to life's crushing existentials, felt righteous in the blame that they laid upon all that they beheld that was not themselves.”
― Justin Kelly , The light of the stars in their eyes

“Do we really not recognize the faeries anymore just because they're driving spaceships now?”
― Justin Kelly

“Race-ism: a religion where the pious practitioners walk faithfully in the dogma of social categorization. Often leading to a rise in violence, race-ism promotes the idea that men with an excess of brown pigment in their skin, a type of natural sunblock, and men who are lacking in this pigment, are as opposed to one another, and different from each other as cats and dogs, or birds and monkeys. Today, race-ism is preached from every available media outlet, flooding the hearts and minds of our youth with a false idea, one that's fueled by self hatred, and insecurity. Much like all faiths, the racists put on smiling faces, and tout the good causes of social justice, and equality, in a disguised attempt to dominate the world, and form it to their own perceptions. Race-ism is a meme, the offspring of the 'tree of knowledge', also known as men, or males. There is no "coexist" in the world of memes. They, the memes, although delusional, consider themselves vitally important, motivated by the most basic of instincts and desires, the desire to "be fruitful and multiply". There are many memes that humans have been trodden under. The most famous is the one in the book of Genesis. Adam and Eve's invention of the word 'naked', resulted in the faith that our entire civilized world is but a product of. The faith that one should be "ashamed" of one's self, just for simply existing. In other words, the faith in 'good enough', and not 'good enough'. The fruits of which, continue to curse every fiber of our existence. We have become so embarrassingly desperate in our need to conquer our faith, that churches have evolved into universities, where, for a price, professors preach divine instruction in the difficult path of attaining that most longed for goal, 'good enough'. Knowing that memes are so dangerous, and that they desire our worship, our belief, the taste of our blood, as well as our undivided attention, this is why I'm a member of the only denomination of race-ism that preaches the gospel. The church of One Race. The human race.”
― Justin Kelly

“Love is simply this: to throw away our personal desires in order to fulfill the needs of those around us, and, to do so without any expectation of return. The religion of Jesus on the cross only serves to fuel anger and violence, but, the symbolism of Jesus, a male sacrifice upon the female world tree, is the only path to peace, as well as, the only act that can satisfy a boys hunger to be something more, a man.”
― Justin Kelly

“Echoes of all the horrors the walls had ever witnessed were embedded in its construction, the sight of which, begged rivers of tears to flow forth from his wrists.”
― Justin Kelly, The light of the stars in their eyes

“Books deliver a transference of the authors personality and emotions to the reader. They're not really about words, or stories. That's why reading the quran makes one feel like an asshole, and reading the bible makes one feel guilty.”
― Justin Kelly

“but she was still beautiful
her soul
still possessed him with her longing
a longing
infinitely more powerful
than any male obligation
she
was a tree of life
after all”
― Justin Kelly , Tree of Ashes

“This short story is a rat trap strapped to your face as you descend to the depths of Dante's 'Inferno' while being entertained by hooded throat singers chanting 'stairway to heaven' on your way to a candle lit blind date with cthulhu himself. This story should have never been written. You should probably never read it, and it will probably be banned soon due to its traumatizing effect on the mind, but...there is a happy ending.”
― Justin Kelly, The light of the stars in their eyes

“I'll make you some gods
but it's an expensive endeavor
I'll need all the gold
you people can gather”
― Justin Kelly, Our modern gods

“The children loved him for he pulled the nails from their skulls, and he dried their tears, and he told them to forgive those who had hurt them unless they wanted to become just like them.”
― Justin Kelly, The light of the stars in their eyes

“And although their hopes and dreams were but a house of cards, when they longed for escape, the construction proved solid as a soviet prison.”
― Justin Kelly, The light of the stars in their eyes