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“That was what I wanted more than being alive. What I had always wanted, at the very heart of myself.
To love and be loved – for who I really am.”

“I thought of all the unexpected ways in which she had become important to me, and all the ways in which I’d failed to save her.”

“A place that was so viscerally mine, shared with her.”

The French authorities decided to catalogue a list of fifteen signs of demonic possession. They’re included in the pamphlet here:

To think oneself possessed.
To lead a wicked life.
To live outside the rules of society.
To be persistently ill, falling into heavy sleep.
To utter obscenities and blasphemies.
To be troubled with spirits.
To show a frightening and horrible countenance.

“ ‘Once again, I would like us to hold up a magnifying glass to that shimmering thread between author and reader. ”

Learning to control your anger is a lifelong pursuit. Yet it is a pursuit worth the effort. Anger left to run free is like wildfire, indiscriminate in its destruction. But if you learn to tame it, to position it, to take aim with it? Then it becomes a candle. And what is the candle but one of man’s greatest assets? It warms. It nourishes. It shines a light in the darkest of places.

“God, even when I was trying to be sickly sweet, I was still kind of a bitch”

“I believe that the Gothic has an almost supernatural power to corrupt. To unravel, to violate, to deprave.”

“Before I learn what to think,’ I say, voice low and clear, ‘I want to first learn how to think.”

“I know why I’m here,’ he said, gesturing around. ‘We natural theologians provide arguments for the existence of God based on reason and rationality. Where better to do so than a former convent?”