hubris, n.

Every time I call you mine, I feel like I'm forcing it, as if saying it can make it so. As if I'm reminding you, and reminding the universe: mine. As if that one word from me could have that kind of power.

“Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.”

“And it doesn’t even matter if it’s true or not. What matters is that I feel it,…”

“I have been in the bodies of people who I suspect would give almost anything to…”

“The terrorists-those nineteen people, with hundreds or maybe thousands behind t…”