The Asylum Confessions Quotes

“He had skin of black satin with a smile to swoon most”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Serial Killers

“He was the golden boy, loved by all, fawned over by everyone. He could do no wrong.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Serial Killers

“And no, I didn’t take communion with her body. She didn’t deserve to be remembered and honored like that.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Serial Killers

“Anyone who hurts a child on purpose doesn’t deserve God’s forgiveness.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Serial Killers

“No child deserves to die. No child deserves to be hurt. Every child deserves to be protected, especially by those with a calling to protect them.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Serial Killers

“You don’t know you’ve hurt someone until you see that pain in their eyes.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Serial Killers

“No one is satisfied when they’re in pain. No one feels peace or contentment or even joy, when pain hovers over them. Why is that? It’s because we’ve been taught that pain is bad for us. Pain isn’t bad. It’s good. It’s an awakening.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Serial Killers

“The repentance we seek from God is not one buried in sex. It’s layered in pain. Pain from our actions. Pain of the heart. Pain we cause others. Pain we feel ourselves. Pain from hiding from the truth.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Serial Killers

“We know. We always know.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Serial Killers

“We know everything. We hear it all. Especially when it’s about the fallen.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Serial Killers

“It’s a euphoric emotional response.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Serial Killers

“All your life you’ve been considered different, an outsider, and then finally you find someone, who understands you, who confirms your difference is actually uniqueness that others can’t handle, and they love you for who you are, not for who they try to make you to be.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Serial Killers

“Every life is precious. Even the vilest of sinners. God loves everyone the same and gives us all the opportunity to repent of our sins, regardless of what we’ve done.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Serial Killers

“Only someone who has experienced that pain can truly understand it.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Serial Killers

“My epiphany was that God wanted me to bring salvation through pain back to His children.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Serial Killers

“They were sick but held no fear of death, knowing the energies from their decaying bodies would feed the soil and in turn, take care of their families.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Serial Killers

“We don’t learn lessons through ease and joy. We learn them through pain and torture - torture of the mind, of the heart and yes, sometimes of the body.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Serial Killers

“We all need hope. But before that hope within us can bear any fruit, there first must be pain.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Serial Killers

“We learn that life isn’t fair. That we don’t get a pain-free life just because we believe in God. That truth and justice doesn’t always win.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Serial Killers

“You said something to me that has settled it’s claw into my soul and won’t leave me alone.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Serial Killers

“Those were my crowds. The rough crowds. The crowds who didn’t give a fuck.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Serial Killers

“Ahh, cool your jets, big man.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Serial Killers

“I told him to shut the fuck up”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Serial Killers

“addictions make humans do stupid things.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Serial Killers

“People make fun of things they can’t understand and then, no one understood why it was okay for a body not to decide upon a gender.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Serial Killers

“My father always said there was way too much anger in me. He was one to talk. He was the meanest son-of-a-bitch I knew.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Serial Killers

“Mom taught me to ignore people when they made fun of me, but why? Why not stand up for myself?”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Serial Killers

“I’d get laughed at, made fun of, poked at, teased…anything to make me feel degraded.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Serial Killers

“I realized I liked the attention.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Serial Killers

“Didn’t matter if the attention was good or bad - it was fuel to my fire, food for my soul.”
― Jack Steen, The Asylum Confessions: Serial Killers