Emery

“Graham had a lot of trouble with taste. Often his thoughts were not tasty. There were no effective partitions in his mind. What he saw and learned touched everything else he knew. Some of the combinations were hard to live with. But he could not anticipate them, could not block and repress. His learned values of decency and propriety tagged along, shocked at his associations, appalled at his dreams; sorry that in the bone arena of his skull there were no forts for what he loved. His associations came at the speed of light. His value judgments were at the pace of a responsive reading. They could never keep up and direct his thinking. He viewed his own mentality as grotesque but useful, like a chair made of antlers. There was nothing he could do about it.”
― Thomas Harris, Red Dragon

“But you can only lie about who you are for so long without going crazy.”
― Ellen Wittlinger, Parrotfish

“He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness.”
― Thomas Harris, Red Dragon

“How is it you're so beautiful and so fucking ugly inside!

You know it wouldn't take much to make your outside look like your inside!!

I could just chop your brain out!

It doesn't deserve such a pretty body...”
― Jhonen Vasquez, Johnny The Homicidal Maniac #1