Joshua Trotter

“If he wants to be an asshole it’s a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“he had to dull the pain. The pain of what? The pain of the raw torn places, the damaged membranes where he’d whanged up against the Great Indifference of the Universe”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“His time, what a bankrupt idea, as if he’s been given a box of time belonging to him alone, stuffed to the brim with hours and minutes that he can spend like money. Trouble is, the box has holes in it and the time is running out, no matter what he does with it.”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“Don’t you remember, she told him then, when you were nothing but shadow and smoke? Darling, he’d said in his soft, rich way, I was the night itself.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue