Stephen Heaton

“Pain isn’t a competition,” I assure him. “There’s always enough to go around.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“A new wound can take a body. Opening an old one can claim a soul.”
― Pierce Brown, Iron Gold

“It tasted as if I’d taken a drink directly from the diseased asshole of an incontinent skunk. It took all of my strength not to vomit.”
― Matt Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl

“the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But nothing is inherently over there or here. In that sense, the past has no content. The past—or, more accurately, pastness—is a position.”
― Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History