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He was the young silent type, which was what I liked. The type that can grab a book and read for hours, without having to talk about shit or make noise, I admired that.
Stragglers get eaten, and it’s the stragglers that will slow down the predator that’s coming after you.
For obvious reasons, females didn’t interest me. They talked too much and their laugh made my teeth grind.
the very earth underneath me was only surviving because it was too mad to know it had died.
I looked ahead at the long raised road, stretching out in front of me like my path to hell.
I kind of felt like he was a stray cat I had been trying to feed outside my house. Slow movements, not too much at once.
Once again he had no idea he had said something offensive. I was learning to remind myself of his bluntness. I wasn’t used to being with someone so, well, unfiltered.
“I have a lot of thoughts, mostly dark,” I replied. “The less you talk out loud, the more you talk in your head.”
They would never see daylight again and they didn’t even know it. How fragile a human life was, so easily taken away.
There was something humbling about being reminded that the flesh you ate every day tasted the same as the flesh that rested underneath your skin.
“I love you. You make me happy, you’re the only one who makes me happy. You’re all I have.” “I know.”
Perish had loved me, I saw it in his eyes. Love and just relief… relief that someone loved you. Someone cared.
Which is why you killed him. You don’t leave your pet to starve if you can’t take it with you; you shoot it so it doesn’t suffer.
I won, you pathetic waste of life.
“As much as you wish for it, I’m not as complicated as you think.”
the world is full of jerks and unfortunately it can be difficult to tell the difference. The best jerks are the ones who can fake it.
Their windows and doors were boarded up, blinding and silencing them until the ebb of time took what little pride they had left. A fate that would eventually reach all of us.
“You never know what you’re missing until you’re locked in hell.”
My fleeting attraction was based on my own vile nature, and a human need to find like-minded people, no matter how depraved.
we could be two fractured people who, when stuck together, formed one perfect person.
How could a memory be so fresh and raw in my mind but seem like it happened years ago? Not just years ago, but to someone else on a distant planet.
When the lion calls over the deer, you run. The one who stays to ask his purpose becomes dinner.
I had said it because I needed reassurance that he was still my lantern in the darkness.
