Rahmat’s Reviews > Martyr! > Status Update

“Eight of the ten commandments are about what thou shalt not. but you can live a whole life, not doing any of that stuff and still avoid doing any good. That’s the whole crisis… The belief that goodness is built on a constructed absence, not doing.”

“He wanted, acutely in that moment, to be not-alive. Not to be dead, not to kill himself, but to have the burden of living lifted from his shoulders.”

“He felt a flash of familiar shame—his whole life had been a steady procession of him passionately loving what other people merely liked, and struggling, mostly failing, to translate to anyone else how and why everything mattered so much.”

“She was Christian but American Christian, the kind that believed Jesus had just needed a bigger gun.”