

“I AM GOING TO BE FURIOUSLY HAPPY, OUT OF SHEER SPITE.”
― Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
― Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

“This book does not have a happy ending. The happy part is there is no ending, because I'll always find a way to keep going.”
― Know My Name
― Know My Name

“Our bodies are ecosystems, and they shed and replace and repair until we die. And when we die, our bodies feed the hungry earth, our cells becoming part of other cells, and in the world of the living, where. we used to be, people kiss and hold hands and fall in love and fuck and laugh and cry and hurt others and nurse broken hearts and start wars and pull sleeping children out of car seats and shout at each other. If you could harness that energy 鈥 that constant, roving hunger 鈥 you could do wonders with it. You could push the earth inch by inch through the cosmos until it collided heart first with the sun.”
― In the Dream House
― In the Dream House

“I can鈥檛 lose the thing I鈥檝e held onto for so long, you know?鈥 My face twists up from the pain of pushing it out. 鈥淚 just really need it to be a love story, you know? I really, really need it to be that.鈥
鈥淚 know,鈥 she says.
鈥淏ecause if it isn鈥檛 a love story, then what is it鈥? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. 鈥淚t鈥檚 my life,鈥 I say. 鈥淭his has been my whole life.”
― My Dark Vanessa
鈥淚 know,鈥 she says.
鈥淏ecause if it isn鈥檛 a love story, then what is it鈥? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. 鈥淚t鈥檚 my life,鈥 I say. 鈥淭his has been my whole life.”
― My Dark Vanessa

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”
― The Call of Cthulhu
― The Call of Cthulhu
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