The next time you have an instinct to help someone, you might consider crushing them instead. It might save you a great deal of trouble.
Must I denounce myself as a monster while you still refuse to see the one growing inside you?
I am the unreliable narrator of my own story.
Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.
Forgiveness is too great and difficult for one person. It requires two: the betrayer and the betrayed.
Fate has a habit of not letting us choose our own endings.
If everything that can happen happens, then you can never really do the wrong thing. You’re just doing what you’re supposed to.
I’ve never known myself as well as I know myself when I’m with him.
I’ve always found the idea of death comforting. The thought that my life could end at any moment frees me to fully appreciate the beauty, and art, and horror of everything this world has to offer.
When a fox hears a rabbit scream, he comes running. But not to help.
We don’t get wiser as we get older, but we do learn to avoid or raise a certain amount of hell, depending on which we prefer.[to Abigail]
Typhoid and swans, it all comes from the same place.