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“Sound systems are what turn cars into escape vehicles, even if you've got nowhere to go.”
“...I did what most kids do when their world feels destroyed. I tried to care less about what remained...It was untrue, of course.”
“Kind of gay? I wanted to say. Do you have any notion how many homosexuals sweated their ass off on the dance floor to make this soaring bit of derivative trash possible? How many died of AIDS, OD'd...”
“You don't want to think about it, but there's an ethical limit to what anyone should have to endure. You can't just negate that with sentimentality. With the idea of some indomitable spirit. That's...”
“A few months ago, a fog blinded me, thicker than ever before. I slept in the monsters arms. I felt its breath on my neck, its scaled stomach rising and falling against my back, its head and face in...”
“What do you fear when you fear everything? Time passing and not passing. Death and life. I could say my lungs never filled with enough air, no matter how many puffs of my inhaler I took. Or that my...”
“It struck me then, for the first time, how unethical anxiety is, how it voids the reality of other people by conscripting them as palliatives for your own fear.”
