*I have been sent here by God to punish you for your wickedness.
You must be very wicked, indeed, to deserve a punishment as bad as me.*
Genghis Khan
So run, you cur, run. Tell all the other curs the law’s coming!
You tell 'em* I’m* coming, and* hell’s* coming with me.
While the angels, all pallid and wan,
uprising, unveiling, affirm
That the play is the tragedy, ‘man,’
and it’s hero, The Conqueror Worm.
Oderint, dum metuant.
Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.
- Caligula
Believe it or not, it was my daughter. She woke me from a dead sleep to whisper,
Mommy, I will love you forever. Until the day you die. THE DAY. YOU. DIE.
She’s 5, but she has this really long hair that makes her look like the girl from The Ring in the middle of the night - all ropey and black hanging down over her face almost to her hips.
“Mommy? Why does everybody have a bomb?”
That used to creep me the fuck out as a kid. Possibly not just as a kid.
I’m not locked in here with you. You’re locked in here with me.
Jonathan Hickman’s excellent East of West is good for this. Every issue, on the cover, opens with the following:
Every issue ends with the following:
I’ll fuck you till you love me, faggot!"
- Mike Tyson, at a press conference.
Thomas Jefferson writing from Paris on the occasion of Shay’s Rebellion, back home:
By 1793, developments in Paris inspired this:
Cavalier words from one whose own Revolutionary service involved a stint as Governor of Virginia; his loss of Richmond to Benedict Arnold has been termed “less than Churchillian.” TJ was never in danger of shedding blood–his own or anybody else’s. (He had overseers to do the flogging.)
“The screams of children keep me awake at night”
A WWII SS Officer working in a concentration camp complaining in his journal that children are ruining his sleep.
“When I see a pretty girl walking down the street, I think two things: one part of me … her right; the other part wonders what her head would look like on a stick”
“Daddy, I’m scared of these woods.”
“You’re scared? I’m the one who has to walk back out by myself.”
“To realize that all your life—you know, all your love, all your hate, all your memory, all your pain—it was all the same thing. It was all the same dream. A dream that you had inside a locked room. A dream about being a person. And like a lot of dreams there’s a monster at the end of it.”
–Rustin Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) in True Detective