“I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“The first thing I hate is called a Russian doll. It holds a smaller version of itself inside it, and another inside that and so on. How awful. They are prisoners. I imagine them all screaming in the dark, unable to move or speak. The doll’s face is broad and blankly smiling. It looks so happy to be holding its children captive.”
― The Last House on Needless Street
― The Last House on Needless Street
“The young feel pain intensely, I think, because they don’t know yet how deep it can go.”
― The Last House on Needless Street
― The Last House on Needless Street
“I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.)”
― Lunar Park
― Lunar Park
“I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal's handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say somehow miniaturize and slip into it, the odds are good that no one would notice I was gone. No... one... would... care. In fact some, if they noticed my absence, might feel an odd, indefinable sense of relief. This is true: the world is better off with some people gone. Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.”
― American Psycho
― American Psycho
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