“Something about how to let folks rest in peace, especially when their peace is different from mine. Louder than mine.”
― Black Boy Out of Time
― Black Boy Out of Time
“Stress is like high blood pressure; a silent killer that rusts you from the inside out until you’re nothing more than a husk of whatever it is you were before stress devoured you.”
― Lullabies for Suffering: Tales of Addiction Horror
― Lullabies for Suffering: Tales of Addiction Horror
“I had to unlearn the most important lesson I had learned as a child, the most important rule of survival—to be quiet.”
― In the Shadow of the Valley: A Memoir
― In the Shadow of the Valley: A Memoir
“Perhaps life was just a matter of doing what you thought was best at the time and then living with the consequences as best you could afterward.”
― The Shadows
― The Shadows
“It’s not heart-stopping or intense or bloodcurdling or graphic or violent. No jump scares. To me, these qualities aren’t usually scary. Something that disorients, that unsettles what’s taken for granted, something that disturbs and disrupts reality—that’s scary.”
― I'm Thinking of Ending Things
― I'm Thinking of Ending Things
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