Nobody wants to worship you if you have the same problems, the same bad breath and messy hair and hangnails, as a regular person. You have to be everything regular people aren’t. Where they fail, you have to go all the way. Be what people are too afraid to be. Become whom they admire. People shopping for a messiah want quality. Nobody is going to follow a loser. When it comes to choosing a savior, they won't settle for just a human being.

It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.

I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.

Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.

There are bodies buried everywhere you just have to know where to look.

Not everything is about money. You didn't even say, hello. You are not your sad little wallet.

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.