It Devours! (Welcome to Night Vale, #2)

by Joseph Fink

Sometimes it’s okay to find something beautiful without correctly understanding it.

Hypothesis: Everything is frightening and we should hide,” said another.

Science was meant to be hard. After all, what was science but a bunch of bored human beings trying to challenge themselves when faith became too easy?

There are moments in life in which it is made clear to us how vastly we have misunderstood.

Sometimes where you live is just a place, no matter how long you live there.”

one of the most important parts of growing up, and of approaching the world as an adult, was understanding the difference between likable and good, and recognizing that one often had no effect on the other.

She had no way of knowing what he wanted from her, and so the question here was how much of her life did she want to live with the comfort of trust, and how much did she want to live with the painful necessity of suspicion? This balance, she felt, was the rest of what it meant to be a grown-up. And she decided that the kind of adult she wanted to be was one that lived openly as much as possible, even if that occasionally meant being open to pain.

Sometimes it is these normal, everyday things, these things that would ordinarily bring us comfort, that, against the backdrop of calamity, only heighten the fear and the chaos,