Sean Stevens’s Reviews > Set My Heart on Fire > Status Update

“Summer suits me because whatever will happen won’t linger. Once the creaking light and humid air clears, it all seems like a lie.”

“Passion is something that occurs naturally. Yet when the time comes, I make it occur artificially. That seems different to ordinary enthusiasm. Distorted. There’s something forced and unnatural about it. I can cool it down at will. For me there’s little distance between loving and hating someone.”

“In an incoherent, inconsistent world, some exorbitant happiness could always come along. I trembled at the premonition. I was in a world of man-made magic.”

“I couldn’t tell what pleasure was anymore. At first you get high to feel good or check out. Then, once you’re using it regularly, it stops feeling good. Your brain can’t check out, it doesn’t get you there. But you don’t learn, you keep taking it just to escape the withdrawal. To forget the chilling despair you feel when you sober up.”

“the same night will continue on.Today is just yesterday,continued. Tomorrow is just today, continued. Day breaks, night falls, day breaks. Night probably falls again.The little details differ, sure.But for the most part, everything is pretty much the same, and I feel neither more nor less sluggish today than I did last Thursday.I am sluggish But still compelled to dance. Provided there’s some variety to the music”

"When your world breaks, your self also breaks. But for me, the world’s always been broken. It’s all chaotic, out of my control. I’m sure that’s why I try to sort and organise it so much. I want to have it all contained in the palm of my hand."