What the Hell Did I Just Read (John Dies at the End, #3)

by David Wong

Amy had long ago learned the secret to reading people’s minds, a mystical two-step process that involved 1) shutting her mouth and 2) listening to what they say. People will scream their secrets if you just give them a chance. Even the liars can’t resist letting the truth ooze through the gaps.

The reality is that society had gotten too fast, noisy, and stressful for the human brain to process and everybody was ingesting something to either keep up or dull the shame of falling behind. For those few who truly live clean, well, it’s the self-righteousness that gets them high.

They just do not grasp the fact that they do not believe based on what they observe; they observe based on what they have been tricked into believing.

“We’re in Waffle House. Half the people here are probably murderers.

They didn’t have witch hunts because they believed in witches. They believed in witches so they could have witch hunts.”

Behind the veil of this world is a realm beyond the physical. The undying entities that dwell there do not have a shape or a size, but can only be measured in terms of their ability to exert will.

“Society is nothing more than people cooperating with other people they’d much rather murder.