Connor Stompanato

“It's very sinful, but when I'm with you, I don't need God.”
― Boris Strugatsky, Hard to Be a God

“And I tell you, pleasure and pain have nothing to do with heaven and hell.”
― H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau

“But how can a man who has once strayed into Heaven ever hope to make terms with the earth! What passes for happiness with most people seemed contemptible to me. And when I tried, deliberately and sincerely, to live like the rest of them, I stored up enough remorse to last me a very long time.”
― Alain-Fournier, Le Grand Meaulnes

“Death was always at your back, an infinite darkness coming to swallow you. I felt miniscule. No matter what I did, I would still be just as miniscule. But so long as I could walk, I could outrun death.”
― Wang Xiaobo, Golden Age