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What is revealed to us as the conscious mind is no more than a flicker in the flames of the subconscious. Beneath our awareness lies a forest of terrors, of all the darkness of nature. In rare individuals, these ghostly drives break free, and monsters climb out of the abyss.
Jordan Russo swung the passenger door open and leapt from the moving car.
“Sophia and Adrian Dean,” Baldwin said. “They were found about a month ago in their home in North Las Vegas.”
“Show your feelings, and you’re just an emotional woman that can’t be trusted. Don’t show them, and you’re an icy bitch that can’t be trusted. Take your pick.”
He was, in a very real sense, unable to believe that other human beings existed separate from his experience of them.
“Yeah, there were signs. All of them after. Hindsight is like that. It tricks your brain into thinking life is predictable. It’s not. Eddie
“Nothing’s ever as good, or as bad, as you think it’s going to be,”
There’s certain types of men, Tara, that look for the best in people and use it against them. Compassion, forgiveness, a willingness to help, pity, love—that’s what they look for, and they use them against you. But those traits are not
Hindsight has the power to make us feel like fools, she thought. He turned back to the television.
That’s one thing I always admired about you: you never took the easy route. That’s why you’re so strong now. You become a good sailor in storms, not in calm seas.”
