Phillip Rienzo

“And you're late."
"I prefer chronologically challenged.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Cruel Crown

“When my face is flushed with blood, it becomes red and obscene. It betrays at the same time, through morbid reflexes, a bloody erection and a demanding thirst for indecency and criminal debauchery.”
― Georges Bataille, The Solar Anus

“The land, now, well I'll tell you how I feel about that. It's done a good job, as good as it was able to, anyway, and it's got a right to look tired. It'd be pretty upsetting if it looked any other way. Yes, and the hardness is all right, too. It's been through something pretty hard, and some of that hardness was bound to rub off. And sometimes a frown sets a lot better with you than a smile. Something that's taken a beating, you don't want to see it laugh. And just because it's stopped laughing doesn't mean it'll never laugh again.”
― Jim Thompson, Cropper's Cabin

“To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground