“One thing we’ve noticed is these days people see all kinds of things they don’t want to see, so they go blind.”
“Selectively blind.”
― Ashley Bell
“Selectively blind.”
― Ashley Bell
“It is nearly two o’clock in the morning, and Tom Bolan is ass-over-head, military-grade, wearing-more-booze-than-he’s-ingesting drunk.”
― American Elsewhere
― American Elsewhere
“The monsters in our cupboards and our minds are always there in the darkness, like mould beneath the floorboards and behind the wallpaper, and there is so much darkness, an inexhaustible supply of darkness. The universe is amply supplied with night.”
― Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
― Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
“That’s fucked,” he remarked, sounding a damn sight less nonchalant than he felt.”
― The Scarlet Gospels
― The Scarlet Gospels
“Humanity is capable of any atrocity,” she said. “But when you understand the extent of this cruelty, the unprecedented viciousness, the immense scale of the horror, it seems beyond the power of mere people to conceive and execute. It seems demonic.”
― Ashley Bell
― Ashley Bell
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