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“If only it were a billion years in the future, I’d leave Earth with your body on my back and we’d be a pair of happy boats. Doesn’t that sound nicer than cannibalism?”
― Hunger
― Hunger
“I ate a person. A human being. Is that a sin?”
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“I couldn't do it. I couldn't let his body spoil. I would bury him inside me, every last morsel. I tore through my mind. I wondered if burning him or scattering his ashes in the sea would have been more merciful...but there was no going back now.”
― Hunger
― Hunger
“What misfortune wants is for me to mistreat myself. To look down on myself and destroy myself. I'll never come to resemble this disaster. I won't live as the disaster wants me to live.”
― To the Warm Horizon
― To the Warm Horizon
“Faith is the key to grasping absurdity. The ultimate test happens when you're faced with something that makes you want to cry out, But that doesn't make any sense at all!”
― Hunger
― Hunger
“Are those who fire the guns and take the bullets ever those who start the war?”
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“She was basically telling me to get lost. She didn't want to be with me or be there for me, choosing to turn us into strangers forever.”
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“And now she's eating me, crying. Was that blood or pus running down her face? Did she realise she was crying? Could she feel me watching, listening? I used to think death was the end, but my mind is still here. I wish I could take the burden of my body with me and leave her only my heart. I wish she could eat my love for her. I remember everything: our first kiss, so sweet and silly, and all the nights spent reminiscing about it.”
― Hunger
― Hunger
“But what do I know, really? Turns out we're as clueless in death as in life. The only difference is the dead don't agonise over the unknown. They know to leave some things alone.”
― Hunger
― Hunger
