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“Only in life eternal has the Lord learned that it is better to never be born at all,” Roland said, opening his eyes. “The only choice, once we have been born, is to die as soon as we can, and to take as many with us as possible. Only then can we release Him from His prison.”

“Let me explain something to you. Here we abide by laws. Do you understand the difference between rules and laws? No? The difference is that rules suppress, laws liberate. Rules are easily broken, whereas laws are sacred.”

“Fucking brought them closer.”

“Black metal didn’t exactly attract well-adjusted people. Hard drugs and corpsepaint were symptoms of the same disease.”

“The thing that unified us all—it was hatred. If only people would just accept it, embrace their hatred and learn to live with it, how much healthier things would be. We could drop all the bullshit and get mean. We could just be animals, lowdown and dirty.”