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”Does the soul even have a gender?”

”Children lose their innocence when they realize that adults can hurt them.”

”The world is cruel to people who are different.”

”That’s because most people are blind idiots. They go wherever you tell them to go, like sheep.”

”All this happiness makes me sad.”

”There’s something decidedly divine about wallowing in the depths of despair, in the throes of melancholy - it’s holy, sacred. Death is the final act and cannot be undone. Despair and misery, however, can ferry you to the most consecrated of places within the confines of your mind.”

”I’ll never get used to anything, Anybody that does, they might as well be dead.”

”You can’t see the ugliest of a person’s thoughts in an x-ray.”

”That way, you’ll always remember who you are. Don’t forget who you are, That would be a real tragedy.”

”Sometimes it’s easy to lose ourselves in despair and heartache.”

”That’s the thing people don’t talk about enough - that there are people who will judge even the way you mourn your loved ones.”

that you’re different, that you’re only as decent as unusable goods.”

”That’s something I think about often: how people around you change when you lose a loved one. The manner in which they refer to you, the gender way in which they approach you as if you might rip apart under the slightest pressure. Their courteousness comes from a place of goodwill and sympathy; however, it only reaffirms the fact that you’re different,

”Sometimes it’s easier not to believe.”

”What’s the point of pretending that we’re being carried through the universe by the giant hand of some caring, compassionate deity?”

“None of it really matters. It never did. I tricked myself into believing that it mattered so that I could carry on and pass through life on a gentle current, the same way a branch does when it falls into a river and it eventually carried out toward emerald seawater.”

”Every horror story is about power. Whether it’s blatantly displayed or more discreet, every horror story about power.”

”I slip outside onto the back porch and gaze up at a sky so endless and so devastatingly black that it could swallow me whole if it had the will to do so.”

our brain withers away to nothing and we’re left to process the griefm the heartache, the misery, all alone.”

”He explained that every baby is born with a small worm attached to its brain - a tiny caterpillar the size of a thimble. The worm gets scared when we’re frightened, is furious when we’re angry, is depressed when we are sad, Sometimes when the worm in our head perishes while we are still alive and we are left to our own devices. I think this happens when we lose somebody we truly love - the little worm coiled inside

”It was a gross misjudgment on my part to perpetuate the myth that life is worth living to people who are so delicate, so fragile, that they might split apart like wet straw at any given moment.”

”The Christian Bible is nothing more than a book of fairy tales written by clerics and other so-called holy men who might have found success today in the art form of speculative fiction.”

”None of us will eventually find loved ones, as we were promised in Sunday school. I know that to be true. Christianity has made sycophants of most of us - lobotomized zombies who will suckle at any available teat even if it’s leaking lighter fluid and we’re holding a torch.”

”I can’t deny there’s something exquisite about darkness and how it keeps our most precious secrets hidden in a celestial vault.”

”I long to be cradled by the hands of darkness, to be fed into the gaping maw of infinity, where the human body is a lyric that the nighttime sings again and again until apocalypse enters with music to drown out the symphony of our suffering.”

”Sometimes pain is earned.”

”The sad fact of the matter is that it’s decidedly simple to infect a mind, to poison a person’s thoughts and plant a seed of doubt within them that will eventually take root and flourish with extravagance.”

”Sometimes an ending is a new beginning.”

”The world is nothing more than a carnivorous plant that devours the things that are the softness and most delicate.”

”There’s no secret meaning to our lives, no grand reason for our existence. We are merely the human equivalent of a paramecium in a Petri dish. The sooner we realize that, the better. There’s nothing holy or sacred about our presence on this planet.”