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“The living are dangerous. They inflict pain. They're so fueled by greed, a lust for useless material shit, a smoldering desire to fit in ... and they'll hurt and betray and destroy whomever they must in order to get anywhere close to all of it. None of them are any different.”
Chandler Morrison, Dead Inside
“I hate dealing with people. They can’t be up front about anything. Please don’t confuse my misanthropy for misogyny.”
Chandler Morrison, Dead Inside
“I don’t think she’ll mind. I mean, she eats babies.”
Chandler Morrison, Dead Inside
“I’ve never been any kind of athlete or anything, but am I seriously the only person who realizes that infants are the perfect punting shape? If we replaced footballs with babies, I would have been far more successful in high school gym class.”
Chandler Morrison, Dead Inside
“Self-awareness really doesn’t mean shit, though. It is, in fact, little more than psychological masturbation, and has about the same net worth as a wad of semen in a handful of crumpled tissues. No cockroach ever desired not to be a cockroach, just because it knew it was a cockroach.”
Chandler Morrison, Dead Inside
“Yes, that pun was wholly intended, and yes, I do find myself amusing. The audience doesn’t get it, but that’s what laugh tracks are for.”
Chandler Morrison, Dead Inside
“Nothing you know to be true, is true. Society has brainwashed you. Don’t be like the rest. Fuck the rest.”
Chandler Morrison, Dead Inside
“There’s nothing more poetic than the death of a beautiful woman.”
Chandler Morrison, Dead Inside
“As I dress myself for work, I’m daydreaming of chilly kisses punctuated with black tongues and chipped, gray teeth.”
Chandler Morrison, Dead Inside
“Still, there’s just . . . too much color in her face, too much light in her eyes . . . and I can feel the warm body heat radiating off her. I imagine her colder, paler. She could be almost perfect, if she wasn’t oozing all that spritely vitality. There is no greater tragedy than beauty needlessly wasted.”
Chandler Morrison, Dead Inside
“Okay, before I go on, I should warn you that this next part is what most people would consider to be gross or appalling. If you were expecting fifty shades of softcore mommy porn, you’re going to be disappointed.”
Chandler Morrison, Dead Inside
“She’s grinning from ear to ear, and in this moment, her beauty has become, in some abstract sense, nightmarish.”
Chandler Morrison, Dead Inside
“I don’t have fun. I have moments of satisfaction in between long bouts of plain existence. That’s it. I don’t even know what fun is.”
Chandler Morrison, Dead Inside
“I want death neither behind, nor ahead, of me, but around me and within me.”
Chandler Morrison, Dead Inside
“People don’t see me, and I don’t really see them. It’s better for everyone that way.”
Chandler Morrison, Dead Inside
“I’m supposed to comfort her—I think any decent human being would—but I’m not a decent human being, and I don’t know much about comfort, so I just sit and wait for her to finish telling the story.”
Chandler Morrison, Dead Inside
“We just need to fuck dead girls and eat babies and feel good about it.”
Chandler Morrison, Dead Inside
“You'll have your chance at death. You'll have a whole eternity of chances. But you only get one chance at life, and it's a very small window.”
Chandler Morrison, Dead Inside
“Consider this your goddamn trigger warning.”
Chandler Morrison, Dead Inside
“want death neither behind, nor ahead, of me, but around me and within me.”
Chandler Morrison, Dead Inside
“The Hallmark Channel has my condolences.”
Chandler Morrison, Dead Inside
“You’d scream if you could, out of pleasure or fear, I do not know. Maybe they’re one and the same.”
Chandler Morrison, Dead Inside
“I think, with mounting certainty, that I have merely stumbled across another individual whose hobbies exist outside of societal norms. We’re the organic entities operating independently of the machine. The machine is the enemy. The machine is death. And not the good kind, either.”
Chandler Morrison, Dead Inside
“Overreaction - it's the American way”
Chandler Morrison, Dead Inside
“There is no greater tragedy than beauty needlessly wasted.”
Chandler Morrison, Dead Inside
“For a brief moment, she looks at the fetus with a soft expression that I think is motherly love, or something, probably imagining all it could have been, and then she lifts it to her mouth and begins to eat.”
Chandler Morrison, Dead Inside
“I want her name to be unique because she is going to be unique. Unique as in, fucked up. Fucked up like me. Like us.”
Chandler Morrison, Dead Inside
“Helen,” I say, “what the fuck has happened to you.” She looks deeply at me with an expression that’s far too affectionate and says, “You, darling. You happened to me.”
Chandler Morrison, Dead Inside
“Your problem,” I say, “is that you spend too much time running from your own darkness. You should accept it. Embrace it. Hide in it, instead of hiding from it.” “What’s so bad about the light?” “You can see better. And most things aren’t worth looking at.”
Chandler Morrison, Dead Inside
“The priest is here to make people believe dying really isn’t so bad, that there’s something on the other side. He’s here to make dying easy. To make it attractive. And me? I just fuck dead girls.”
Chandler Morrison, Dead Inside

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