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“All of this is recorded somewhere. It is history.”

“All of this is recorded somewhere. It is history.”

- from “The Deathbird”

“High in the bloody sky, the Deathbird circled.”

“High in the bloody sky, the Deathbird circled.”

“No tears, please. It’s a waste of good suffering.”

“The terror will not end.”

“Maybe reading is a sort of curse is all I mean. Maybe it’s better for a man to stay inside his own mind.”

“Surely this was Hell.”

Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe reference spotted.

“It is a timeless tale of cunning and courage, but also a lesson, still very much pertinent today, about how deforestation, industrialization, and colonization can upset the fragile balance of cultures and ecosystems alike, creating unseen pressures that, at a certain point, must find their release.

Sometimes even in the form of a man-eating tiger.”

“The Champawat was not an incident of nature gone awry—it was in fact a man-made disaster.”

“It is colonialism, undeniably, and the onslaught of environmental destruction that it almost universally heralds, that served as the primary catalyst in the creation of our man-eater.”

“…436 human lives taken by a single animal. To put that grisly number into contemporary perspective, the entire roster of the National Basketball Association evens out at around 450 players. So essentially—according to most published accounts—the Champawat very nearly consumed the entire NBA.”

“She had learned to cry almost without tears now, for practical reasons.”

“Life doesn’t always turn out the way you expect.”

“Sometimes it’s easier to live with your own anxieties if you know that no one else is happy, either.”

“Drugs are a sort of dusk that grant us the illusion that we’re the ones who decide when the light goes out, but that power never belongs to us. The darkness takes us whenever it likes.”

“Some people want to decide for themselves how happy they are.”

“…it’s very easy to declare that other people are idiots, but only if you forget how idiotically difficult being human is.”

“Natural beauty doesn’t exist here—it’s created.”

“There’s something ugly about this town…”

“Horror and fatality have been stalking abroad in all ages. Why then give a date to this story I have to tell?”

“Horror and fatality have been stalking abroad in all ages. Why then give a date to this story I have to tell?”

“Darkness covered the universe. Nature mourned, for its parent had died.”

“History doesn’t sink over time. Tears keep it afloat.”

“I have no mouth. And I must scream.”

“I stood alone in the darkness.
Light does not illuminate.
It only looks for things to illuminate.
And I had never been found by the light.
I would always be in darkness.”

“If I don’t exist, I can’t disappear either.”

“She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence.”

“We serve time and we are slaves of the schedule, worshippers of the Sun’s passing, bound into a life predicated on restrictions because the system will not function if we don’t keep the schedule tight.”