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“The mask of apparent calm, of mundane tranquility, of the joy, at once small and bright, of not knowing when this thing I call skin will be ripped off, when this thing I call mouth will lose the flesh that surrounds it, when these things I call eyes will come upon the black silence of a knife.”
“The human being is the cause of all evil in this world. We are our own virus.”
“As Jesus said: Take and eat of my body.”
Mhm... This is an example of why religion is a cult...
Our existence would be an exasperating shade of gray if we were all flawless.”
“After all, since the world began, we’ve been eating each other. If not symbolically, then we’ve been literally gorging on each other. The Transition has enabled us to be less hypocritical.”
“Everyone says that he fell because he flew too close to the sun,” his father said, “but he flew, do you see what I mean, Son? He was able to fly. It doesn’t matter if you fall, if you were a bird for even just a few seconds.”
His father stroked his mother’s cheek and, still a young child, he felt that this was love.
