mad mags

“You don’t get it. He cut all the way through my cheek to the inside of my mouth.”
“But you’re alive. And I love you.”
“Say that when the bandages come off,” she said in her dull, doped-up voice. “I make the Bride of Frankenstein look like Liz Taylor.”
I took her hand. “I read something once—”
“I don’t think I’m quite ready for a literary discussion, Jake.”
She tried to turn away again, but I held onto her hand. “It was a Japanese proverb. ‘If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples.’ I’ll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it’s yours.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“It’s all about the killers—not the women they kill.”
― Kirsten Miller, The Change

“Do you ever think that maybe you have your shit together, it's just that your shit doesn't look like everyone else's?”
― Catherine Ryan Howard, 56 Days

“I COME FROM THE belly of the snake. The dark side of the moon. From my grandmother’s gin still: juniper berries, coriander, orrisroot. I leave a bitter taste on your tongue.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Children on the Hill