Jason Ward

“And so at least we will all be together where we belong, since even if only he went there we would still have to be there too since the three of us are just illusions that he begot, and your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.”
― William Faulkner

“Life is hell, and the sweet still night of absolute death is the annihilation of hell.”
― Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror

“One of the latticed squares in a small cobwebby casement window at the turn of the staircase was glazed with ruby, and that raw wound among the unstained rectangles in its asymmetrical position — a knight's move from the top — always strangely disturbed me.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Cultural history, as well as observation of ourselves and others, allow the following answer: Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.”
― Peter Wessel Zapffe, The Last Messiah