“People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.”
― Innocent Blood
― Innocent Blood
“Ставаш психиатър за да си изписваш сам халоперидол.”
― Лудост
― Лудост
“I thought I was your destination. Looks like I was just another stop on the line.”
― Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
― Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
“Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.”
― Death is a Lonely Business
― Death is a Lonely Business
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