drowningmachine

“It will come with a rush and a roar and a shudder. It will come howling and laughing and shrieking and moaning. It will come so fast you can’t help yourself you will stretch out your arms to embrace it. You will feel it before it comes and you will tense yourself for acceptance and the earth which is your eternal bed will tremble at the moment of your union.”
― Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun

“As though all the world were a bad joke and she was the only one around who knew the punchline.”
― Jack Ketchum, The Girl Next Door