“Terror starts picking at the seams of my mind, throwing hateful words like rapture and holocaust at me.”
“The inception of human consciousness, the genesis of awareness, must have entailed prolonged 'condensations' around intractable nodes of wonder and terror, at the discriminations to be made between the self and the other, between being and non-being (the discovery of the scandal of death).”
“To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that underlies everything.”
“You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.”
“Love. She was aware that, to some people, this would be a warm-fuzzy type of feeling. For her, it was pure, unadulterated terror.”