Quotes by Tessa Maurer, The Toxic Children

“Then why are you still here? I ask. I stand up and her gun follows me. I welcome its bullets just to see if I could survive.Masochism.I dont know what that means.It means I like my own pain.That do...”

“Books are more honest than the world. If you want to understand people, listen to what they make up.”

“Then why are you still here?” I ask. I stand up and her gun follows me. I welcome its bullets just to see if I could survive.“Masochism.”“I don’t know what that means.”“It means I like my own pain....”