“Beauty is biased, brainless. It says little to nothing about anybody as far as ethics are concerned, so why not monetize it? Give it some value, pin it with a price point. Otherwise, its worthless.”

“Ive always wanted to be the sort of boy who does the right thing without having to think about it first, the kind of boy who makes his bed every morning and wears his mouth like a vase for words of...”

“Crashing through windows I thought were open doors. Apologizing for the mess. Rationalizing my behavior in metaphors youll simply never understand. Learning to accept defeat. Watching you walk away...”

“Fucking fixes nothing, but certain feelings are unavoidable.”

“I think its imperative that we continue confusing light with meaning. Thats how the human race evolves. Someone sees a light, names it God, goes toward it, goes up in flames. Same goes for moths. W...”

“When youre finally finished crying, I hope you run as fast and as far as you possibly can from me. When you land, out of breath, and Im finally out of sight, finally out of mind, youll be honestly ...”

“But who can remember pain, once its over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”

“I know what you are learning to endure. There is nothing to be done. Make sure nothing is wasted. Take notes. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In lif...”

“My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning does not stop. The machines do not rest, the systems rarely ...”

“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”

“Everyone represses everything. Do you think any of these "normal" human beings really do exactly what they want to do all the time? 'Course not. It's just the same. We're middle-class and we're Bri...”

“You can count the bruises on your heart easily enough, but numbering sins is a far tricker matter. Men are eternally forgetting for their benefit. They leave it to the World to remeber, and to the ...”