“If you ask me to braid your hair. I'm going to stab you.”
― Francette Phal, quote from Flawed
“I hum while I work, like one of Snow White’s dwarfs, only I’d be called Stabby.”
― Francette Phal, quote from Flawed
“Have you ever looked at something so beautiful, so utterly alluring that you just wanted to destroy it?”
― Francette Phal, quote from Flawed
“I will treat you like a favorite toy and break you simply because I can.”
― Francette Phal, quote from Flawed
“He’s immense, intense, and lethal. His eyes…God, his eyes are the most frightening and beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. There is no escaping them. No escaping him.”
― Francette Phal, quote from Flawed
“I can imagine you have a lot of questions, so let me answer them by simply saying that you are here bound as you are because nothing else will do. This is how I choose for you to repay me. There will be twenty-five sessions. They will last for as long as I want them to. I will treat you like a favorite toy and break you simply because I can. In this room, you are an object, my object. You have no voice. You have no opinion. Your wants, your needs, are inconsequential to the pleasure I will reap from your pain.”
― Francette Phal, quote from Flawed
“Don’t you fucking touch me with that, you sick fuck!” I won’t return the duct tape to his mouth. The cursing is another welcome note in this building symphony.”
― Francette Phal, quote from Flawed
“An assassin with serial killer tendencies.”
― Francette Phal, quote from Flawed
“An assassin with serial killer tendencies. I became the best. It wasn’t a matter of conceit. It was fact. An uncontested truth. I was the best because I enjoyed what I did.”
― Francette Phal, quote from Flawed
“One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.”
― Albert Camus, quote from The Stranger
“When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from And Then There Were None
“Once upon a time there was a lady. She had no children, and no happiness either. And at first she cried for a long time, but then she became wicked...”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, quote from The Master and Margarita
“Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.”
― Roald Dahl, quote from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
“And for just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological time into timeless shadows, and wonderment in the bleakness of the mortal realm, and the sensation of death kicking at my heels to move on, with a phantom dogging its own heels, and myself hurrying to a plank where all the angels dove off and flew into the holy void of uncreated emptiness, the potent and inconceivable radiancies shining in bright Mind Essence, innumerable lotuslands falling open in the magic mothswarm of heaven. I could hear an indescribable seething roar which wasn't in my ear but everywhere and had nothing to do with sounds. I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember especially because the transitions from life to death and back to life are so ghostly easy, a magical action for naught, like falling asleep and waking up again a million times, the utter casualness and deep ignorance of it. I realized it was only because of the stability of the intrinsic Mind that these ripples of birth and death took place, like the action of the wind on a sheet of pure, serene, mirror-like water. I felt sweet, swinging bliss, like a big shot of heroin in the mainline vein; like a gulp of wine late in the afternoon and it makes you shudder; my feet tingled. I thought I was going to die the very next moment. But I didn't die...”
― Jack Kerouac, quote from On the Road
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