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A random quote from my favorite book | I Am Not A Serial Killer by Dan Wells
John: I need to see a movie or something. I need to be normal -we need to do normal stuff.
Max: Like sitting on the couch and talking about how normal we are? Us normal people do that all the time.
John: Come on, Max, I’m serious! This whole thing is serious! Why do you think I even came here!
Max: I don’t know. Why did you come here?
John: Because I’m… something’s happening. I’m not… I don’t know. I’m losing it.
Max: Losing what?
John: Everything. I’m losing it all. I broke all the rules, and now the monster’s out, and I’m not even me anymore. Can’t you see?
hatchethands-:
The Rules:
- I will not hurt animals.
- I will not burn things.
- When I think bad thoughts about a person, I will push the thoughts away and say something nice about that person.
- I will not call people “It”.
- If I start to follow someone, I will ignore them as much as possible for a full week.
- I will not threaten people, even implicitly.
- If people threaten me, I will leave the situation.
‘Fear is a … it’s a weird thing, when you think about it. People are only afraid of other things, they’re never afraid of themselves.’
‘Should people be afraid of themselves?’
‘Fear is about things that you can’t control,’ I said, ‘the future, or the dark, or someone trying to kill you. You don’t get scared of yourself because you always know what you’re going to do.’
I’m a good person,” I said, “because I know what good people are supposed to act like, and I copy them.
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I Am Not A Serial Killer by Dan Wells (via appplecore)
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“Sometimes when I watch people trudging through their daily routines, I think that fire is more alive than we are– brighter, hotter, more sure of itself and where it wants to go. Fire doesn’t settle; fire doesn’t tolerate; fire doesn’t ‘get by.’ Fire does. Fire is.”
sandislays:
“I’ve been clinically diagnosed with sociopathy,” I said. “Do you know what that means?”
“It means you’re a freak,” he said.
“It means that you’re about as important to me as a cardboard box - a piece of garbage that no one’s thrown away yet. Is that what you want me to say?”
“Shut up,”…
Fire doesn’t create anything new, it simply is. If other things must be destroyed in order for fire to exist, that’s all right with fire. As far as fire is concerned that’s what those things are there for in the first place.
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John Wayne Cleaver
From Dan Wells’ novel I Am Not A Serial Killer
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It was the only time he swore all day, as far as I could tell; I suppose it helped him cleanse his mind and start the day fresh, gathering the night’s dark thoughts into a plug of mental mucus and spitting it out in a single word.
