Enough white lies can scorch the earth black.
Isaac Marion, The New Hunger.
“Good people see past their own fucking lives.”
“What happened? How did I get here? How could I have known that my choices mattered?”
“Its more eerie to be alone in a city thats lit up and functioning than one thats a tomb. If everything were silent, one could almost pretend to be in nature. A forest. A meadow. Crickets and birdso...”
“Suddenly exhausted, she closes her eyes and slips into nightmares again. Graveyards rising out of the ocean. Her friends corpses in the light of their burning school. Skeletons ripping open men's c...”
“Nora knows better than most that nothing lasts forever. Life doesn't, love doesn't, hope doesn't, so why would death, hate, or despair? Nothing is permanent. Not even the end of the world.”
“She remembers sprinting over the thin after-waves that slid over each other like sheets of glass. When she ran with the waves it looked like she wasnt moving. When she ran against them it looked li...”
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect fo...”
“Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.”
“Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.”