You read any Greek myths, puppy? The one about the gorgon Medusa, particularly? I used to wonder what could be so terrible that you couldn't survive even at it. Until I got a little older and I figured out the obvious answer.
Mike Carey
You've been unhappy because you've desired things that cannot be. That's what desire IS. The need for what we can't have. The need for what's readily available is called greed.
devil lucifer god
Michael: There's nothing here to fear. Lucifer: Well, there's always the truth.
truth fear lucifer
age everything
We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves.
creation monsters frankenstein
Those heart-hammering nightmares that start to lose coherence even as you're waking up from them, but that still manage to leave their moldering fingerprints all across your day.
dreams nightmares
No, there are no special places in hell. Hell is a democracy.
hell lucifer
It was a hot, moist armpit of a night..
humorous
I have stared into the light and you are all my shadows.
regret
It does no good to run. And it does no good to hide. But I know what it's like. Your brain shuts down, and you follow your instincts. Or, at least, you you do. But you know what you're really doing? When you flee through the night, or crawl into your little bolt-hole? You know what's really guiding you? Controlling you? Pushing you on?.
running hiding
That's what I've never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested bastard any day of the week; at least you can play chicken with him and know he'll stick to the rules.
cynicism cynic
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