Apparition Quotes

“Fear fed on ignorance, just as ignorance fed on fear.  The great truths were always circular.”
― Michaelbrent Collings, Apparition

“We Facebook. We Tweet. We play online games with other people. Millions of ways to “connect.” And yet we as a society are more lonely and isolated than perhaps ever before.”
― Michaelbrent Collings, Apparition

“Cruelty comes in many shapes.  Sometimes, survival itself is one of them.”
― Michaelbrent Collings, Apparition

“Has anyone else realized that the entire Bible is just a long history of a god’s machinations to kill his favorite son?”
― Michaelbrent Collings, Apparition

“The grief for something real had been replaced by a pining for something that had never really existed in the first place, by a memory that was so good and perfect it never could have existed. ”
― Michaelbrent Collings, Apparition

“As soon as the door shut with a heavy thud and a click, he felt the urge to – (to hurt to rend to tear to kill to FEED) – discipline Ella dissipate. ”
― Michaelbrent Collings, Apparition

“He squirmed a bit more, trying to get comfortable and failing miserably.  He was tired and his muscles were sore for some reason and now he had to add to his list of worries the possibility of being the littlest kid ever to get hemorrhoids, which Tommy Decker had told him that his daddy had caught once from sitting on a hard seat.”
― Michaelbrent Collings, Apparition

“Madness is, at heart, the easiest state in which to find oneself, for it absolves a person from any responsibility or sense of accountability.  Reality, though… reality demands attention, demands reason and thought and heartbreak.”
― Michaelbrent Collings, Apparition

“The past is never past.  It reaches forward to color our future, to stain our present.  It’s always here as much as it is there.”
― Michaelbrent Collings, Apparition

“FACT: Filicide (a parent deliberately killing his or her own child) is the third-leading cause of death of American children between 5 and 14 years old. FACT: In the United States alone AT LEAST 250 to 300 children are murdered by their parents every year. FACT: No one knows why this happens.”
― Michaelbrent Collings, Apparition

“It boggled him how a group of cords could go into a box separately marked and twisted in tight loops, then come out of the same box as an orgiastic mass of gnarled knots.”
― Michaelbrent Collings, Apparition

“Ella didn’t say anything.  Matthew did.  He always said stuff.  If you put him in a vacuum sealed room with a limited oxygen supply and told him his only hope at survival was to use as little air as possible and speak not at all, the first thing he would do would probably be to say, “Cool, how did you make this place?” and go on from there.  Silence was not an option.  Dad once said that Matthew had been vaccinated with a phonograph needle.  And once he explained to Ella what a phonograph even was, and what the needle did, she thought that was pretty funny.  And totally true.  Matthew had two settings: asleep and talking.”
― Michaelbrent Collings, Apparition

“Bunnies have got nothing on computer cords, he thought.  Horniest things ever created. He started untwisting the coital knots.”
― Michaelbrent Collings, Apparition

“seemed to appear out of nothing, an act of creatio ex nihilo (which she remembered from social studies class because it sounded like a cool name for a rock band) in the forest. ”
― Michaelbrent Collings, Apparition