Isabel

“Thinking the day of judgment was imminent, farmers did not plant crops. Many people gave themselves over to alcohol. Civil and economic disruption may have caused as much death as the disease itself.”
― James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

“Satanism represents opposition to hypocrisy, every human being feels rage, every human being feels anger, and we feel it is natural to express that anger in a healthy way.”
― Nikolas Schreck

“In 1965, worked with Nite Owl bringing street gangs under control. Tackled the Big Figure together. Brought down Underboss together. Good team.

Until he got soft, like rest. Until he quit.

No staying power. None of them. Except Comedian. Met him in 1966. Forceful personality. Didn't care if people liked him. Uncompromising. Admired that.

Of us all, he understood most. About world. About people. About society and what's happening to it.

Things everyone knows in gut. Things everyone too scared to face, too polite to talk about. He understood.

Understood man's capacity for horrors and never quit. Saw the world's black underbelly and never surrendered. Once man has seen, he can never turn his back on it. Never pretend it doesn't exist.

No matter who orders him to look the other way.

We do not do this thing because it is permitted. We do it because we have to.

We do it because we are compelled.”
― Alan Moore, Watchmen