Triin

“Can we help you stop screaming? Can we help you stop screaming?’ “‘You could let me smell you.’ She puts her cheek up by my face. They are here. You have to understand that. They are here. ‘I’m not going to let you do an operation.’ “‘We won’t hurt you.’ “‘I’m not gonna let you do an operation on me. You have absolutely no right.’ “‘We do have a right.”
― Whitley Strieber, Communion

“As is now widely known, the real money in this and other gold rushes was not in gold itself, but in selling to gold-seekers supplies, tools, transportation — anything that fed their hopes.”
― Robert L. Fitzpatrick, Ponzinomics: The Untold Story of Multi-Level Marketing

“The act of exorcism implies a “driving out” of the demon, but it’s really more like placing a demon under oath. In some cases, it may be more than one demon inhabiting a person. The word “exorcism” comes from the Greek ek and the verb horkizo, which means “I cause [someone] to swear” and refers to “putting the spirit or demon to oath.” It’s more easily explained as invoking a higher authority to bind the entity so it can be caused to act contrary to its own will.”
― Troy Taylor, The Devil Came to St. Louis: The Uncensored True Story of the 1949 Exorcism

“Then I took another sack and started going through all of the papers on my desk, and in the drawers of the desk. I was fairly ruthless and threw out things I'd been keeping for no good reason, stuff that if I died my unfortunate executor would have no hesitation in throwing out either, because what was he going to do with it... what was he going to do with old love letters, pay slips, gas and electric bills, yellowed typescripts of abandoned articles, instruction manuals for consumer durables I no longer possessed, holiday brochures the holidays of which I hadn't gone on... Jesus, it occurred to me -- as I stuffed all of this garbage into a bag -- the shit we leave behind us for other people to sort out.”
― Alan Glynn, The Dark Fields