Zack

“After awhile you could get used to anything.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“And as [Jesus] stepped ashore, there met him a man from the city who was possessed by demons … Many times it had laid hold of him and he was bound with chains … but he would break the bonds asunder … And Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” And he answered, “Legion.” —LUKE 8:27–30”
― William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

“I think the demon’s target is not the possessed; it is us … the observers … every person in this house. And I think—I think the point is to make us despair; to reject our own humanity, Damien: to see ourselves as ultimately bestial, vile and putrescent; without dignity; ugly; unworthy. And there lies the heart of it, perhaps: in unworthiness. For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love: of accepting the possibility that God could ever love us.”
― William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

“Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms