Sempiternal Quotes

“He flicked a switch, and the voltage screamed as it ran through my soul.”
― Michael F Simpson, Sempiternal

“Before he could speak his mind, eight black psychopathic needles came out of my mouth, sharpened and clean. They pulled at my already weakened jaw and drew out an abyssal creature, angry, great and strong.”
― Michael F Simpson, Sempiternal

“How have you been sleeping? I would like to assume poorly. That makes my job easier. See, you did not know it before, but every time you sleep I am watching you. And those horrible dreams you tried so hard to forget about, yet could not get out of your head? You are welcome.”
― Michael F Simpson, Sempiternal

“It could be seconds, minutes, hours — weeks, months, or yes, even years. It could be no time at all — or indeed all of Time.”
― Michael F Simpson, Sempiternal

“Of course, if you broke a glass orb, and put it back together in the wrong order, you wouldn’t have an orb anymore. That’s how his fragmentation worked. My dreams became illogical but they also made perfect sense for as long as he kept me in his realm. If that which is narratively flawed makes perfect sense, he has control. He could twist the fragments into Heaven or Hell and either would work.”
― Michael F Simpson, Sempiternal

“Moths are prettier than butterflies.”
― Michael F Simpson, Sempiternal

“Loudmouth turned his head and pointed at me, with wide eyes that weren’t ready for an afterlife.”
― Michael F Simpson, Sempiternal

“Words will always make more sense to the writer than the reader. It just means that, even though the reader may have suffered, they haven’t suffered like the writer.”
― Michael F Simpson, Sempiternal

“Through the holes in the walls, I could see the world. The whole beautiful world. White clouds passed the makeshift windows and pulled across the dark blue sky, and with it the sun and stars burning bright. Crows flew past and cried out to me. Fireflies swarmed around my head. And none of it mattered without the quiet girl.”
― Michael F Simpson, Sempiternal

“Even though I needed to know more if I wanted to continue attending the church, the multitude of different forces living in my brain were more powerful than the small, hidden part of the brain that actually represented me.”
― Michael F Simpson, Sempiternal

“The thing from inside my soul started to sing.

It sounded like suicide.”
― Michael F Simpson, Sempiternal

“So when you’re alone, and you’re hurting, and you open your heart, something will hear you. Because the thing that hears your prayer is hurting too.”
― Michael F Simpson, Sempiternal

“Eating became an automatic action. Take the food. Place it between the jaws. Tear it apart. Drag it deep into the abyss to acidify, to dissolve, to delete. Such violence to maintain life. In the end, it’s how all things are sustained. One thing must be destroyed for another to grow.”
― Michael F Simpson, Sempiternal

“Emotions were confusing to me before, always so entangled in my clockwork, never working as intended. With her, this confusion somehow made sense. I felt as though I was supposed to have this messy ball of emotions when I held onto her.”
― Michael F Simpson, Sempiternal

“Because all of our thoughts are just encrypted messages carried through electrical pathways by weird, deformed insects in our brains. It’s only when you start to hear them drilling caverns in your skull that you realise how crazy this is, and you learn what true insanity is — pure, human conscience.”
― Michael F Simpson, Sempiternal