A Lush and Seething Hell Quotes

“Surely, Sartre had it right. Hell is other people”
― John Hornor Jacobs, A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

“Reverend Owens says we’re souls at sea riding on ships looking for a lighthouse. We’re candles in the dark.”
― John Hornor Jacobs, A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

“In the dark, there is no time, just one moment, stalled out, breathless, that goes on forever.”
― John Hornor Jacobs, A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

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― John Hornor Jacobs, A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

“We are bits of meat in a watery broth. Sweet-tallow candles waiting to be lit. Pleasure makes us numb, stupid, inert. Pain sparks our wicks. The light and scent of pain—the greater the better—draws the attention of the mighty. The prodigious. The vast and numberless. And that frisson, between the pain, the effluent release of it, and the intention of the deliverers and emissaries, brings forth the miasma.”
― John Hornor Jacobs, A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror