Shawn Waskey

“Maybe that’s the truly ridiculous thing, the way we don’t even blink at the sheer improbability of our lives here on this rock spinning through space. The way we exist out of nothing, the way the whole universe exists out of nothing, and here we are, the impossible something that made existence out of the void. Impossible life. A fluke to be cherished.”
― Matt Haig, The Life Impossible

“Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“I'm gonna need a little more time to figure that out. I'm just numb right now about it. Hurts to even think of his face. But I do know him. I know he was ready. I know he died for something. I just want him to know that, you know? Like, I want to tell his ghost or whatever that it worked. We did it. But he died not knowing we'd win and I guess I just have to live with that.”
― Logic, Ultra 85

“From these garish lights I vanish now for evermore.”
― Charles Dickens