Sign in with Facebook
“What I wish to propose is that complex animals become extinct not because of a change in their physical adaptation to their environment, but because of their behavior.
“Everywhere, in the wreckage around him, he found evidence to support the same bitter thesis: that he had encountered nothing in his life—no person, no state of mind or body—he wanted sufficiently to suffer even passing discomfort for.”
― The Hellbound Heart
― The Hellbound Heart
“To draw blood is just another kind of passion, isn’t it?”
― My Darling Dreadful Thing
― My Darling Dreadful Thing
“Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death”
― The Odyssey
― The Odyssey
“I would bear anything and everything for love of you. Now, does my love mean so little to you that you would not suffer for it as I have for yours?” “Must love be about suffering?” She looked at me with eyes so black, I wondered how she could even see. “How else does one show the strength and sincerity of one’s love if not through suffering and sacrifice?”
― My Darling Dreadful Thing
― My Darling Dreadful Thing
“Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say
that we devise their misery. But they
themselves- in their depravity- design
grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.”
― The Odyssey
that we devise their misery. But they
themselves- in their depravity- design
grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.”
― The Odyssey
Hero’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Hero’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Polls voted on by Hero
Lists liked by Hero
