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We go through life trying to inflict pain on those who hurt us. In their absence, anyone will do. It’s human nature. To fight against it is to deny ourselves, to turn a blind eye to the ugliness that makes us human, the animal instinct that keeps us going while everything around us burns.

Being in the presence of monsters is okay as long as you don’t think too much about what they’re capable of. The scarier thing is when you realize what you’re capable of.

The thing about humanity is that it’s always worse than the worst you can imagine. We are base, vile creatures rutting in the muck we’ve created, our eyes looking up at a poisoned sky we’ve populated with ghosts to help us sleep at night, to allow us to come up with reasons to do the things we do.

You know, because sometimes God is your copilot, but it’s the Devil who takes you home.

Your life is precious to you but disposable to others. That’s the rule of the game, the only one that matters.

Sometimes things go wrong and there’s nothing you can do about it. And yet, we mostly refuse to give up. Instead, we invent gods to help push us forward. … The majority of people always want to think life is worth living, that we must do everything in our power to keep going, to stay alive. They don’t grasp that the value of their life is much lower than the imagine.

One time you had a fever, and your dad sat in the car with you in the parking lot across from the hospital all night long… why does a silly man cross the road? That’s what I asked your dad back then. And you know what he said to me? To get to the other side teeny minutes quicker than driving from home.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is almost indestructible.