April Slaughter

“He viewed his own mentality as grotesque but useful, like a chair made of antlers.”
― Thomas Harris, Red Dragon

“The Shadow is not evil. It is everything You were told to hide in order to belong, anger, desire, grief, neediness, brilliance, queerness, eroticism, boundaries, pleasure, pride.


In short: the parts of You that threatened the story someone else needed You to play.”
― Diana Von Rigg, Dom(me) the Darkness Within: Ritual Shadow Work for the Neurodivergent & Kink-Aligned

“Does a man’s existence change in any way when he removes his overcoat? Neither does it change when death removes the overcoat of his body. He’s still the same person. No wiser. No happier. No better off. Exactly the same. “Death is merely continuation at another level.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

“The gift?” “An ability to utilize the etheric sense despite their encapsulation in the physical body.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come