You who understand what a human mind can be, how can you bear it? I don't have the hundredth part of your mind and there are days when I think I'll go mad. I can feel it. Or hear it. It's more like...

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.

There nearly always is a method in madness.

Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an...

If we choose to, we can live in a world of comforting illusions. We can allow ourselves to be deceived by false realities. Or we can use them to hide our true intentions.

Like officer Dave. He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other.

Doubt was a giant - sized beast with heavy boots that pounded through the cities of the mind, sparking an occasional life only so Hope could rise again for a splendid recrushing. Doubt reveled in...

Maia screamed and woke. 'Serenity?' Cala's voice, Cala's angular shape outlined against the window. ' 'Tis an ironic title, in sooth,' Maia said feebly, realizing that the entangling garments of the...

You're bubbly and approachable. ... I'm none of those things. The sarcastic wit and humorous charm is a front. I honestly despise people. I like to consider myself as more of a dictator that staff are...

He smiled. A sub shouldn't be terrified, but a little anxiety was good.

The deepest and darkest dungeons that we are ever flung into are the dungeons of the mind

Perhaps there's an innate human emotion inside us all that when we are presented with something we don't understand, we immediately want to kill it.

Advances in biological knowledge have highlighted the potential chronicity of effects of childhood maltreatment, demonstrating particular life challenges in managing emotions, forming and maintaining...

Sometimes, when you want to help a broken person, your attempts only remind them of their missing pieces.

Abuse counselors say of the abusive client: When he looks at himself in the morning and sees his dirty face, he sets about washing the mirror.

I'll stop eating steak when you stop killing spiders. Absurdity: comparing cows to spiders. Arachnids are pure evil. They're like a cigarette manufacturer or a terrorist. They're organized religion on...

I am going to be murdered. It wasn't any easier to face in the daytime.

Until that moment, it hadn't occurred to me that my grades and test scores over the years were anything more than individual humiliations; I hadn't realized that one day all of them would add up and...

What is unbelief but the despair, dictated by the dominant powers, that nothing can really change?

If someone looks into your eyes, I read in a book one time, he'll see right into your soul. I didn't want anyone to see into my soul.

Irrationality is the exclusive preserve of humans as among all creatures only we have the power to rationalise, that being the art of packaging patently irrational as apparently rational.

Humans, when you talk to me about them... I more likely see them as an unsolvable unloggable problem... than something else.

Instead of using drugs to create system friendly humans, perhaps we should be creating human friendly systems that do not require people to take drugs to function.

Fear is a powerful beast, if it is allowed the mastery.

How do you teach a classroom of Sybils who are breaking apart and reforming right in front of you?

Since we never get everything we want or need from our families, we look for sufficiency in surrogates.

I think ethical ambivalence is a kind of inoculation, a way of excusing yourself in advance for something you actually want to do. No offense.

An unintentionally hilarious 84 percent of users answer this match question: Would you consider dating someone who has vocalized a strong negative bias toward a certain race of people? In the absolute...

Oh, oh, I'm so sorry I just forgot that what I ask it cannot be answered why?? You don't have the rights to answer it, you don't have the guts, you are afraid aren't you?