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Fans often ask where I get ideas for the monsters of Orcus. I tell them I don’t know, but it’s easier to come up with monsters when you’re angry or upset.
Wow
“You found me in a constellation,”
And this will probably sound worse, but sometimes I like them better than real people. I can empathize with characters. Real people are harder.
Stress does strange things to people.”
“What’s the point of being alive if you don’t do what makes you happy? What good is a career that makes you money if you hate yourself every day you do it?
If you know what you’re meant to do, if you know what you love, why not do that?
It’s not that I don’t like the outdoors. It’s that I don’t see the point of the outdoors when there’s so much I could be doing indoors.
But this time it’s true, and the truth has a way of holding on. Truth is the worst monster, because it never really goes away.
Truth
The things you care most about are the ones that leave the biggest holes.
She drew so many monsters that she became a monster herself.
Eliza, your worth as a person is not dependent on the art you create or what other people think of it.”
My point is, we ascribe value to the things we care most about, but sometimes we don’t stop long enough to take a look at the bigger picture.
I believe what you have to ask yourself, if you truly want to finish what you started, is why did you stop? Was it fear? Pure apathy? Or something else?
