18 quotes found
“What was worse, being crazy or being evil?”
“Self-awareness paradoxically requires an awareness of the other.”
“When the world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos.”
“Do you think the occasional witch burning helps to weld society together?”
“Love was the most susceptible to random failure of all human enterprises.”
“Thats the definition of evil right there: not faking it like everybody else.”
“I hope it's the good kind of dilemma," Reginald broke Patricia's reverie. "Whatever one you're on the horns of."..."I was just thinking," she said. "There are so many scary problems in the world. L...”
“A society that has to burn witches to hold itself together is a society that has already failed, and just doesn't know it yet.”
“Why would anybody be a Satanist, anyway? I dont get it. You cant believe in Satan without believing in God, and then youre just picking the wrong side in a big mythic battle thing.”
“Loneliness was a full-body sensation, an anti-exhilaration, from his core outward.”
“I don't actually think that ethics are derived from principles. At all." Patricia scooted a little closer again and touched his arm with a few cool fingertips. "I think that the most basic thing of...”
“And she felt like they, the two of them, right here, right now, could make something that defied tragedy.”
“Laurence felt a weird combination of shame and rage, as though he'd grown another new body part just in time to get punched in it.”
“Booze really was medicinal, after a near-death experience. Holding a drink in both hands and letting it corrode the topmost layer of his mouth and throat, Laurence felt a spiritual relationship wit...”
“He went to make coffee. Because when you have just heard about the possible transformation of the human race into feral monsters you need to be doing something with your hands and creating somethin...”
“Why would anybody be a Satanist, anyway? I don’t get it. You can’t believe in Satan without believing in God, and then you’re just picking the wrong side in a big mythic battle thing.”
“That’s the definition of evil right there: not faking it like everybody else.”
“That’s the definition of evil right there: not faking it like everybody else. Because all of us crazy fuckers can’t stand it when someone else lets their crazy show.”
