“Because of you, the world makes sense to me in a way it didn't before. I have a place now, with you.”
― Reflected in You
― Reflected in You
“It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were okay, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that simply wasn't so”
― Dark Places
― Dark Places
“We were all in it together, of course, desperate to regain some hypothetical upper hand by any means necessary.”
― Blindsight
― Blindsight
“Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief.”
― The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
― The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
“My Oneness will stop the machine that overtakes people's minds. Do we really need new clothes, or new cars, or new TVs? Should we really ingest food made from chemicals not of this earth? Should we really give our money to people who don't need it but want it to fill the evil greed inside of their body? No, we don't, but people need me to show them how to be free." Jimmy, "The One”
― The Other Side: a Collection of Short Stories
― The Other Side: a Collection of Short Stories
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