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“The air is filled with malice, the kind that no natural being can feel. It is as black as the night, and it is conjured by deepest wrongs and darkest sins.”

“Of course, some of these girls will marry; marry men who have the same kind of life. What will they gain? They’ll gain someone to hold conversations with in the few hours at night between work and sleep.”

“The town is behind on many things: education, women’s rights, and housing limitations—resulting in slums growing in the outskirts of Omaha. Yet brothels keep on springing up everywhere like mushrooms after a rainstorm.”

“Tonight, we will witness intrusions—the presence of otherworldly spirits trying to contact our world.”

“My friend says the password is Salmon Pizza. Tell them that if they ask.”

“As for the fish, they were found to be in an advanced state of decay and had to be thrown into the garbage can.”

“Some people are freaked out by spiders, but wasps are like spiders with fucking wings. And the bastards sting the fuck out of everything they come across just because they feel like it. Fuck wasps.”

“Most of my time in church was spent wishing to be anywhere but church.”

“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends.”

“They don’t understand that life itself is gratuitous, in the grander scheme of things, our lives are meaningless.”

“Your writing is repetitive, same theme, same characters, same shit over and over and over.”

“I simply broke under the weight of a thousand tense nights, a thousand thoughtless, soul-stripping words.”

“When they killed a chicken or a turkey their mom made them do this elaborate ceremony, thanking the earth and the bird, and urging the bird’s spirit to move on to a higher plane.”

“Love is violence, my darling; it is a thunderstorm that tears apart your world. More often than not, love ends in tragedy, but we go on loving in the hope that this time, it will be different.”

“He drowned his ire in the warmth of mirth remembered, in the glow of past passions quenched without thought but instinctive gladness.”

“He doubted that the Widow Hallett had ever lifted anything heavier than her skirts.”

“His dick was cut off with a table knife, and replaced with a Kentucky Fried Chicken bone.”

“His dick looked like an anteater’s snout sticking out of a trimmed lawn, she didn’t find it funny.”

“One day as a lion is worth ten thousand as a lamb.”

“A little acid, a drizzle of psilocybin, a dash of mescaline, all mixed in a delicious blend of ayahuasca and just a little grenadine for flavor.”

“You treat the people around you like shit! I treat the people around me like they deserve, it’s just most people deserve to be treated like shit.”

“There’s no misery so deep as one you face by yourself, no nights darker than ones you spend alone, but you can learn to live with any weight, your scars grow thick enough they become armor.”

“Expectation is a thief of joy—it hinders living. You need to take every moment as it comes, knowing some moments will be difficult and some will be beautiful. We only thrive when we’re fully present.”

“Who the fuck cares what the world thinks? They’re irrelevant. Outliers,” he says. “Your worth isn’t determined by external validation. That’s bullshit.”

“Yeah… nerdy girls do it for me.”

“The idea made her queasy, the thought of taking a pair of scissors, putting the loose flesh between the blades, and… snip.”

“My instincts were tossed into the pile of wishful thinking and outlandish connections.”

‘So, where you gonna stay?’ ‘Are you asking me or my tits?’ ‘Uh,’ replied Steve dumbly.

“Her playful demeanor is starting to piss Ellis off. He’s never had trouble performing, and for her to suggest it makes him want to show her just how well he can fuck.”

“I close my eyes, I can pretend that none of this has happened, and it is just another Friday evening in which I choose my books for the week. My lonely, stifling, unremarkable life.”