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Each thing that happens to us, each and every thing, it leaves some dent, and that dent will always be there. Each of us is a walking wreck.

I thought that was a wonderful idea, that one could be on hell without being in it, like "Just Visiting" on the Monopoly board.

She had made him into a kind of husband,her own son.

What would the world be like if men never ruled again?

What would it feel like to be ravished by a god, to hold a deity.

This is what I've always loved about a city, all the worlds hidden away inside, largest of aquariums.

What's the point of sea horses? I asked.
The old man stood before them, mouth hung open, as if before his god.

There are no gods, only men.

This table felt extremely dangerous. He understood now that what held his family together was violence.

Cutting through layers,this labor like cutting through the illusion of self to find there was no core, only the layers.

The dead reaching for us, needing us, but this isn't true. There's only us reaching for them, trying to find ourselves.

Having something to look forward to changes everything. I've always needed a future. I can't live without one.

That night longer than all my life before it. No scale or measure in this world can ever be held constant. We are always slipping.

What myth can hold when you kneel in your brother's remains? When you slit his throat yourself? What story can guide us if we can betray all?

Absurdity is all that makes grief bearable

If you look at something in the distance long enough, you eventually have to go there.

She has done this for Jason and will do more, she knows. Her brother dismembered at her feet. This is how the world begins.

Because you can choose who you'll be with, but you can't choose who they'll become.

Even now, I still believe metamorphosis is the greatest beauty.

Origins...They don't explain us, you know. They never do. Each of us is our own piece of work.

A change in those moments, some switch turned off forever, the end of trust or safety or love, and how do we ever find the switch again?

There can be no god without desire.

There must be at least one god not filled with rage.

And only men could have invented the idea of a king.

One life can never know another's.

the best choice we have on the menu tonight.

Why can't any common fuck be king?