Beyond Good & Evil Quotes

“But about six or eight months later, I started falling off. Descending. That’s how depression feels to me. You’re slowly sinking into this quiet place, this numbed out nothing place. Into this rut that has some kind of suction power to hold you down there.” Loshak nodded. He’d never fallen all the way in, but he’d gotten a glimpse here and there when Shelly was sick and in the months after she died. “You’re in pain there, but I think more than that, you’re distant from everything outside yourself. You disappear within the walls of your skull, somehow pulled deeper in like a turtle retracting into its shell.”
― L.T. Vargus, Beyond Good & Evil

“There’s a collective script for that situation that we can follow. But losing a kid, there’s no social mechanism for dealing with that. Nothing to prepare you for it, to help you cope. There’s not even a word for it in the English language. The child who survives is an orphan, like I said, but the parent who survives? Well, there’s nothing for that.”
― L.T. Vargus, Beyond Good & Evil

“Sunk Cost Fallacy.”
― L.T. Vargus, Beyond Good & Evil

“We were trying to cling to what we were before, but eventually you’ve got to face that this is the reality now. Lisa and I care about each other, love each other even, and we still have everything in common we did before, but there’s no heat left between us. I mean, I’d never leave her, but it all feels empty in a weird way. Like this big lie we’re both perpetuating.”
― L.T. Vargus, Beyond Good & Evil

“Handle something like that, I mean. You expect your parents to die before you do. That’s natural. In a way”
― L.T. Vargus, Beyond Good & Evil

“I think maybe what exists beyond this world is just energy, you know? Nothing more. Nothing less. Because physics tells us that energy is infinite. It cannot be created or destroyed. So I guess I think we all go back to where we came from. The force that animates us, I guess you could say. We go back to the well of where that life comes from, and we're no longer separate from each other the way we are here on this plane. No longer animals. Reduced to that essence of life, reduced to energy. And all the drama we experience here is over, the conflict, all the territorial battling we do is rendered meaningless. We are no longer burdened with these concerns of power or control. We simply exist. Maybe that's heaven.”
― L.T. Vargus, Beyond Good & Evil