First of all;
“Personally, I’m a mess of conflicting impulses—I’m
independent and greedy and I also want to belong and share and be a part
of the whole. I doubt that I’m the only one who feels this way. It’s
the core of monster making, actually. Wanna make a monster? Take the
parts of yourself that make you uncomfortable—your weaknesses, bad
thoughts, vanities, and hungers—and pretend they’re across the room.
It’s too ugly to be human. It’s too ugly to be you. Children are afraid
of the dark because they have nothing real to work with. Adults are
afraid of themselves.
Oh we’re a mess, poor humans, poor flesh—hybrids of angels and
animals, dolls with diamonds stuffed inside them We’ve been to the moon
and we’re still fighting over Jerusalem. Let me tell you what I do know:
I am more than one thing, and not all of those things are good. The
truth is complicated. It’s two-toned, multi-vocal, bittersweet. I used
to think that if I dug deep enough to discover something sad and ugly,
I’d know it was something true. Now I’m trying to dig deeper.”
- Richard Siken
Then;
“Mine ain’t the scariest, the clearest, the most painful, or the most beautiful.
It just happens to be the one that’s got its fingers around my throat.”
- Junot Diaz
And finally;
“Lord send me a mechanic if I’m not beyond repair.”
- John Darnielle
