

“It’s easy for people who have sacrificed nothing to rationalize their own ordinariness by calling me lucky. But I sacrificed my entire life; I sold it to the abyss. And the abyss gave me art.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!

“All those severe poets talking big about the wages of sin all the time,” Zee added, “but nobody ever brought up the wages of virtue. The toll of trying really really hard to be good in a game that’s totally rigged against goodness.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!

“Love was a room that appeared when you stepped into it.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!

“It’s possible, he thought, that the experience of gratitude was itself a luxury, a topless convertible driven through a rainless life.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!

“Behind me is silence, and ahead of me is silence.’ And that was it. That was her whole answer. Isn’t that perfect?” “Yeah, that’s beautiful,” said Cyrus, though it confused him. “What I mean is, I think maybe you’ll find your real ending once you stop looking for it,” Orkideh said. “I think real endings tend to work their way in from the outside.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
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