Sofia

“Gelon’s shockingly handsome. But it’s a desolate handsome, which only makes it better. Gelon had a face you’d imagine demands contentment, yet the briefest look at him dispels this. It’s a cheeky reminder that beauty isn’t everything. Look, it seems to say. Here’s Gelon: godlike, broken Gelon. Look and remember that beauty isn’t all.”
― Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

“Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself”
― Iris Murdoch, The Bell

“Common sense is common, has no imagination, and only works by precedent. It leaves the man who follows it poorer, if not in the pocket, then in his heart. Fuck common sense.”
― Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

“But if we have learned nothing else, we have learned this: Humans can walk away from, and forget, anything. Civilization can go back to ‘normal’ after anything.”
― qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division