I could imagine myself becoming one of Marla's stories.

The girl traced the outline of her lover's shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked.

There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die.

If You Don’t Claim Your Humanity, You Will Become A Statistic.

What you have to consider is the possibility that God doesn't like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that could happen.

Sorry, mom. Sorry, God.

Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural lies. The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic systems. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only takes one dissenting driver to create anarchy.