ah! so that’s why your name was so familiar and had me thinking for the reason for weeks! DEATH PARADE!
Your wanting eyes, my wandering lips. Swear I'd settle down if it meant I'd have this. You could burn a hole right through my heart. Put it out, patch me up, say you warned me from the start.
'If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?'
'Good God, we would also be happy if we had no books, and such books as make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. But what we must have are those books which come upon us like ill-fortune, and distress us deeply, like the death of one we love better than ourselves, like suicide. A book must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.'
I prefer printed books now instead of novels. 300-700 pages, and you get a conclusion. While you get 3k chapters and no conclusion...
Nope. Not getting enough time to read. I have read 50% of TPB. Filled with violence, gore, rape, racism and yet more things to come.
'By now the dark could be touched, grasped like a clot of coagulated blood, smeared over my face and body.'
"No, the only good in life lay in not being - or, if one had to be, then in being a tree, a stone, or even less than that, the grain of sand that cannot bleed beneath the grinding heel of a passer-by."