The Asylum Confessions: Cults (The Asylum Confession Files, #4)

by Jack Steen

Every myth has a nugget of truth to it. You realize that, right?

He gave me a killer of a deal, so it was a no-brainer.

There was a virus outside the walls that made everyone impure and dirty, and unless I wanted to become like them, I needed to stay where I was protected.

Adam pouted, had a temper tantrum, and demanded God to provide him with another mate, but one he could control better. God did, but not until after He'd sent angels to find Lilith and convince her to return to Adam. They even promised her half of Paradise as her own, but she wanted it to be hers and hers alone, not something she had to share with someone like Adam.

Because she was His favorite, He offered her the world, promising there was more than just the garden out there and that if she would help to care for it, He would always care for her.

Unlike Adam, because he sinned, and Jesus, who was born of humans, Lilith was created in the image of God, breathed into life by His very breath, and will never die.

there were babies, but they never survived past the sixth-month mark. They were born in a laboratory, and that's where they lived, in coma-induced stasis, used primarily for experimental procedures.

People don't mind being blind sheep when the benefits are theirs for the taking.

I was born in a lab but raised within the confines of the cult.

Every lie is steeped in a truth. Every story, every scenario, every secret has a kernel of truth to it - surely, you, of all people, know that.

Sometimes we focus so much on those dreams, we stop living in the moment, in the lives we actually have.

Regrets are the poison of life, Jack. They eat away at your soul and leave you questioning so many things.

I learned that the government needs those crisis moments in order to better themselves and whatever sick and twisted plan they have in place.

I learned that without those crisis moments, the government doesn't have absolute power.

I also learned that you discover people's true characters in times of crisis. Not just other people, thoug...

Hell is being stuck in a moment of regret, a moment you can never take back, a moment you can never get out of.