“War is not glorious. War is hell. The only reason for fighting it is toachieve some good end that cannot be achieved by any other means.”
“But just as misery cannot crawl across an endless path, so does the trail of happiness occasionally reach a sharp end." - The Last Gift”
“..And they spun, he and the blackness.And as they spun supernaturally downward in a motion that Gabe could only liken to a flushing toilet, Tzaddik was engaging the enemy. This truth was lost on Gabriel Katz, but as long as he held on and fought with every ounce of his strength, every evil dot of that malevolent force, that legion of Hell sent to destroy the boy, was engaged instead with Tzaddik Gabrielus, chosen by God for that very task.”
“Who wants to be a twenty-five-year-old fat, moody, moon-faced, blind, brittle-boned diabetic with no immune system if there is any other possible way to deal with the situation? I was single. Can't you just see that match.com ad? Bloated, anemic, moody, bald, pale female seeks--anyone. Anyone!”
“The Immovable Object can also be construed as an idea whosetime has come. It’s an idea of proportions that the human mind canonly grasp a small portion. Like the idea of freedom during the daysof revolution—only a handful understand what it means for the longterm, but it’s the idea that cause people to take up arms, revoltagainst the ruling class and fight for what they perceive to befreedom.”
“Easy enough to fight when the monster kept its distance, easy enough to draw the line. But when the moster was literally outside the door, that's when your actions mattered. The hard choice wasn't opening the door. The hard choice was keeping it closed.”
“Witchcraft isn't about picking up a book, and asking forgiveness.. or learning about spirituality through the words of others. What you learn from those books are the opinions of other people, and not your own. If this is what you believe then you are not an individual. Witchcraft is about accepting that YOU are responsible for the choices that YOU have made, and YOU teaching YOURSELF to make the right choices. Its about learning through YOUR OWN opinions, YOUR OWN life lessons, YOUR OWN inner self, and by doing so.. BECOME an individual.”