Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.

My parents believe in the happy endings to the stories of their children.

She understood the genre constraints, the decencies were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only as a reaction to suffering or as an act of rage against the Almighty. Vampire interviewee Louis is in despair at his brother’s death when he accepts Lestat’s offer. Frankenstein’s creature is driven to violence by the violence done to him. Even Lucifer’s rebellion emerges from the agony of injured price. The message is clear: By all means become an abomination—but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.

The message is clear: By all means become an abomination -- but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.

Every present anger derives from past weakness.

Your ideal possession candidate's a thirteen-year-old recently orphaned schizophrenic girl three days away from her period on her way to see the shrink with whom she's romantically besotted.

Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.