S.H. Clasen > Quotes

“Little did I know that trusting my reputation would be the catalyst for my downfall.”
― S.H. Clasen, How to Face Eternity, Part I

“...It’s better for both of us this way.”
For both of us? Did he want me out of his hair…Separation was supposed to be for my good.”
― S.H. Clasen, How to Face Eternity, Part I

“She’d age out of this behavior sooner than later, which meant this wasn't sustainable debauchery, only temporary amusement.”
― S.H. Clasen, How to Face Eternity, Part I

“…he’d fought lots of wars…before finally realizing that human conquests would never end and in no way profited him.”
― S.H. Clasen, How to Face Eternity, Part I

“My sweating palms and racing heart reminded me I still lived. As long as the heart in me continued to beat there were ways to make it out of this situation with my vitality intact.”
― S.H. Clasen, How to Face Eternity, Part I

“Whether it was one day or an eternity of days, I’d take any opportunity to live my life differently than I have. I don't want to die like this. I don't want to die with this as my legacy.”
― S.H. Clasen, How to Face Eternity, Part I

“The world is filled with more bad people than you’ll ever truly know. I can promise you that from my seven hundred-and-something years here. I’m talk about the kind who rape, murder, and take advantage of anyone who they deem less than them: people who wouldn’t be missed by a single soul on this planet if they disappeared tonight. If you could find one of those people, wouldn’t you think it justice for this world if you could rid it of them? And in turn, you get a meal-you get to let them contribute to the circle of life and maybe make their worthless existence mean something.”
― S.H. Clasen, How to Face Eternity, Part I

“I-I don't want to die,” I murmured, practically to myself. Though I’d been so willing and ready the previous night while under duress. Now, I couldn’t help but think it wasn’t my time to die. Call it a second lease on life, but if it had been my time, then I would have died while in the very capable hands of the fair skinned grim reaper who’d bit into me. If that wasn’t how I was meant to die, then this couldn’t be either.”
― S.H. Clasen, How to Face Eternity, Part I

“...when I looked in your eyes to do so, all you wanted was death. You told me to kill you. I showed you mercy by doing what you requested; sometimes murder is the greatest mercy.”
― S.H. Clasen, How to Face Eternity, Part I

“You’d have been better off killing me right off the bat. Now your conscience will have to live with the twenty-four hours I suffered fighting for the chance that you waved before me and then denied to me once I’d reach the finish line!”
― S.H. Clasen, How to Face Eternity, Part I

“I’m sorry, but the best thing you can do is suffer through them for now. I promise you, it will get better soon. Don’t fight it, just realize that it will get better.”
― S.H. Clasen, How to Face Eternity, Part I

“I wasn’t entirely naïve, only chiefly optimistic. So, while I would fight for every opportunity to avoid meeting my maker, I’d also had my whole life to come to terms with the fact that things very well could end like this…I knew I would ultimately succumb to the hands of a powerful man who would see me as nothing more than a objectifiable pawn.”
― S.H. Clasen, How to Face Eternity, Part I

“I don’t care what I lose or what I gain or if it's a mistake. I want the opportunity to figure all that out for myself. I want the opportunity to learn my lesson, even if it’s the hard way.”
― S.H. Clasen, How to Face Eternity, Part I

“It was as though he thrived on the stress he created between us, his own heart mimicking mine where it pressed against my back.”
― S.H. Clasen, How to Face Eternity, Part I