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576 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2010
And then in every darkness there dwells a demon who was born without a heart and eats other hearts to assuage his insatiable hunger. The demon hides in the shadows, you can find him in the corners of the mouth of a cruel child, and even if you close your eyes out of fear, he lurks behind your lids and stretches his fingers out for your heart.
Don't worry, you don't need to talk, you don't need to think or, for a while, exist, we'll find out everything about you anyway. Why you became a shadow, why you don't want to exist anymore. Invisible. We'll open a window into your life and let the light in, and we'll shake you awake until you scream with fury. But there's time for that, that comes later.
"As much as we strive toward the light, we still want to be embraced by the shadow. The very same yearning that craves harmony, craves in a dark chamber of our heart chaos. We need that chaos in reasonable portions, because we don't want to turn into barbarians. But barbarians are what we become as soon as our world falls apart.
Chaos is only ever a blink away."
"When a man turns forty, he can stand wherever he wants, just not in the ring."
"The cinema breathes out and it sounds like a sigh. The world has been switched off. You are the world and you wish you were someone else. A tear in the curtain is a tear in the screen is a tear in
your life."
"Your mouth is a machine gun, it never runs out of ammunition."
"Have you forgotten who this is? Father and teacher and tormentor. He can do as he pleases. He is God, he is the world, he is the air, and if he wants he can take your breath and snuff you out."
"Reality is a whore who hates you because you've pissed her off..."
"We're far too old to be young."
"You fear and admire him. You want to be like him and then do everything better."
"Everything begins and ends with discipline."
"You wish you could creep under the table so that everyone would forget you. It has a glass top."
"It’s the pace that counts. Slowness is for losers. Somebody who says he’s got time has no time, he’s lying to you. Who stays on the move controls the world."
"Because fear isn’t always fear. There’s also fear that awakes courage."
"Chance is the sister of fate. And fate is a guy with syphilis and a hard-on, fucking you in the ass as soon as you look in the wrong direction."