Greatest Enemy Quotes

“The house was silent, and I passed through its shadows like a ghost.”
― Jason Kasper, Jais

“If you live your life right, you won’t need any of that.”
― Jason Kasper, Greatest Enemy

“He smirked and turned his eyes back to the photograph. “Then here they are: everything we do—all the guns, the money, the planning, all of it—is just a distraction to keep us occupied from our own realities.”
― Jason Kasper, Greatest Enemy

“Boss continued, “The worst enemy those guys will ever face is a man with a gun. Ours is our own mind, and you can’t kill that unless you do it for good. Other than that, the only difference between you and me is about twenty years of experience and your alcohol tolerance.”
― Jason Kasper, Greatest Enemy

“It’s like being a teenager in Catholic school,” I said. “Intense feelings of desire at all times, and the fact that everyone tells you it’s wrong and you’re going to hell doesn’t stop your hormones. Whether or not you act on it is beside the point.”
― Jason Kasper, Greatest Enemy

“not; you might be saved and you might not. Some return to the outside world and can speak of what they felt inside the booth, and some never return at all.”
― Jason Kasper, Greatest Enemy

“couldn’t possibly have begun to imagine had they not been there. Or, they might not come out at all. They might never leave. Even though you never wanted it, the darkness is addictive; it is a drug that chooses you. The darkness is very hard to break and will most likely require an intervention from the outside, although in most cases the “intervention” doesn’t know it’s intervening—it might just be accidentally providing a distraction. The intervention may be a person or an event, and you don’t have the power to summon it. It might come and it might”
― Jason Kasper, Greatest Enemy

“legal risks to catch a glimpse of it. Except, with the darkness, the glimpse you catch isn’t euphoria or bliss or hallucinogenic inspiration—the other side you see is a terrible, dark, twisted world, and you can’t get out. You didn’t even choose to go in the first place. You did nothing different, but your surroundings started to look a little more distorted each morning, and then one day you woke up and you were there. Drug users come out of their journey knowing what an acid trip or a heroin binge feels like. People with the darkness come out being able to write descriptions of the things they saw and felt, things they”
― Jason Kasper, Greatest Enemy

“But the passers-by on the street will point to them and say, through the glass, “See? See how selfish that was? We could have helped them cope with that difficult issue if only they’d TALKED TO US!” The people who have been in the booth, trapped in the enclosed space with that horrible noise, who have cocked their fist, if only for a moment, even if they haven’t thrown that punch yet and even if they never will, have an understanding with each other. They may never speak it, and their families—the ones they’re supposed to not throw that punch for—probably have no”
― Jason Kasper, Greatest Enemy

“may think they can understand what you’re hearing because they can see you through the glass, but they don’t. They’ve never been inside the booth, and they never will. Occasionally, one of those people on the outside will make some attempt at suicide. They will statistically regret it at some point in the process, and far more of them survive than die. If they live, they will spend the rest of their lives talking about “how close they came.” They will feel like they’ve been given a second chance, they will thank a god of their choice for their newfound strength. They have never been in the booth, either.”
― Jason Kasper, Greatest Enemy

“social media, on their way to the house or the office. Those people on the outside have never been trapped in the booth. They have no idea what you’re hearing, what fills your mind every passing second against your will, and they’re trying to pass judgment on you because your act will negatively affect their happy lives—they might miss a sitcom over it, they might be unable to sleep. How dare you inconvenience them? What about your family? Family has nothing to do with it. They’re not in the phone booth; they’re outside in the open air and peaceful tranquility and sunshine. They”
― Jason Kasper, Greatest Enemy

“to punch him in the face, family members, well-wishers, and pundits from the street run up the sidewalk and pound on the soundproof glass of the phone booth, screaming, “DON’T HIT HIM! That would be a selfish act!” You’re goddamn right it would be a selfish act. What else would it be? Why else would you do it—for someone else’s approval? Who are these people to tell you what not to do, when they have no idea what you’re hearing? They—them, the rest of the world; it’s completely irrelevant whether they are biologically related or not—are going about their happy lives, content with their TV and their”
― Jason Kasper, Greatest Enemy

“It always angers me to hear people talk about suicide being a selfish act. Here is what it’s like: you’re locked in a telephone booth with a huge man who is endlessly dragging his nails across a chalkboard, the shrill sounds choking out everything else and making your blood curl, driving your mind to the breaking point. You can’t plug your ears, you can’t tell him to stop; he is a deaf blind mute and he’s not going to quit unless you make him. Just as you’re cocking your fist back to punch him in the face, family members, well-wishers, and pundits from the street run up the sidewalk and pound on the soundproof glass of the phone booth, screaming, “DON’T HIT HIM!”
― Jason Kasper, Greatest Enemy