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“Life really is amazing, and when you're about to lose it, you finally notice that you never really took it in before. And you realize the sheer magnitude of what it involves, from your first kiss to your hundredth slice of pizza. I guess that's why those tears drifted down my cheeks.”
― The Summer I Died
― The Summer I Died
“Hope is a cruel bitch.”
― The Summer I Died
― The Summer I Died
“it’s funny how you find God in such moments, almost instinctively, like a caterpillar on a strand of silk stretching for the first branch it sees, even if the tree is dead. Yeah, it may seem pointless, but at least it’s something. I even swore that if I survived I would go to church.”
― The Summer I Died
― The Summer I Died
“On the ground, the now handless woman with the ax in her skull lay staring into oblivion. I envied her.”
― The Summer I Died
― The Summer I Died
“I didn't want to let on how much firing the gun had effected me, but it had certainly turned my nuts into giant epcot centers of steel. the sense of power was unfathomable; suddenly I was the mightiest thing in existence, all men bowing before me. with the squeeze of a finger I could undo all goods creations.”
― The Summer I Died
― The Summer I Died
“I guess some problems were too big to fix and you just hoped they would take care of themselves.”
― The Summer I Died
― The Summer I Died
“What did Ralph do?” “What dogs always do, started licking his balls.”
― Alien Aberrations
― Alien Aberrations
“Well I’ll be a two-headed camel in Ikea.”
― Born To Bleed
― Born To Bleed
“I’m just feeling a little like Icarus.” The nurse gave him a blank stare. “Of Greek myth. Flew too close to the sun? Manmade wings? It all went back to the Minotaur, plotwise. Doesn’t everything?”
― Alien Aberrations
― Alien Aberrations
“finally, after many minutes of hard work,”
― Alien Aberrations
― Alien Aberrations
“Before Lane could protest, the sedative swamped him and took him into a deep and dreamless sleep.”
― Alien Aberrations
― Alien Aberrations
“I didn’t want it to end inside the belly of some creature from Pluto, the bowls of Siberia,”
― Alien Aberrations
― Alien Aberrations
“The car bounced up and down along the dusty ground like the tits of a jumping, braless fat lady.”
― Born To Bleed
― Born To Bleed
“song about truck driving vampires.”
― Alien Aberrations
― Alien Aberrations
“Then, the Viking stomped his huge boot into the ground. Like a toddler who wanted apple juice but got milk, but a big fucking toddler with armor and an axe. A seven-foot tall insane scary not-baby having a tantrum.”
― Red Ice Run
― Red Ice Run
“Shit. In my book, listening to a drunk get philosophical is on par with rolling down a hill in a barrel full of nails. You get dizzy, your insides shriek with stabbing pain, and you end up someplace lower than where you started.”
― The Summer I Died
― The Summer I Died
“Dallas held up the gun and now pointed it at Martin.”
― Alien Aberrations
― Alien Aberrations
“Well wrap my nuts around a pole and call me mary, looks like you just popped your cherry!”
― The Summer I Died
― The Summer I Died
“Do you know what a two-headed camel fucking a rocking chair looks like? I do. It looks like the shitty abstract painting that hangs over my therapist's desk.”
― Born to Bleed
― Born to Bleed
“If I’d only known what was going to happen next I would have taken the gun from Tooth and put bullets in both our brains.”
― The Summer I Died
― The Summer I Died
“It’s like looking at heaven, he thought. Real heaven. Not angels on white fluffy clouds, but the real mind-blowing, never-ending magic that illustrated the grandeur of infinite journey and discovery.”
― Hobbomock
― Hobbomock
“His long journey to school typically took him about half an hour. The school was a mile away, and despite the small size of the town, that was still quite a walk.”
― Alien Aberrations
― Alien Aberrations
“The Lord, they say, works in mysterious ways.” Lane parried: “And Satan never sleeps.”
― Alien Aberrations
― Alien Aberrations
“You don’t just concede defeat in these circumstances. You take every second you can find and use it to pray for another few seconds. Hope is a cruel bitch.”
― The Summer I Died
― The Summer I Died
“And the alcohol makes me not care that I’m painting stuff that would make even Bob Ross groan, were he still alive.”
― Born To Bleed
― Born To Bleed
“Life really is amazing, and when you’re about to lose it, you finally notice that you never really took it in before. And you realize the sheer magnitude of what it involves, from your first kiss to your hundredth slice of pizza. I guess that’s why those tears drifted down my cheeks.”
― The Summer I Died
― The Summer I Died





