Derek Aalerud

“Miserable people are fond of laying blame on someone else for their problems. Sometimes they’re right but usually not. Usually, the responsible party is themselves. Or nobody. Sometimes things just aren’t good, and that’s all there is to it.”
― Matt Dinniman, Operation Bounce House

“Reward: You’ve received a cassette copy of Dio’s 1983 masterpiece debut, Holy Diver along with a Celestial Heavy Metal Box.”
― Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin

“All these past selves laid to waste, cut down by time and circumstance and choices made. He didn’t know who he was in this moment, what was left.”
― Keith Rosson, Coffin Moon

“A man just waiting for someone to do or say the wrong thing so that he might luxuriate in that wrongness, and reward it with fury.”
― Keith Rosson, Coffin Moon