“ Had any parent ever succeeded in hiding marital unhappiness from their child? ”
After puberty, you look to one sex for more than friendship and to the other for less-than-complete intimacy.
~ Rafael Yglesias
Maybe becoming a monster is a sign of strength.
Otherwise the silence in the room was profound, the silence of places Brian had not yet been: gazing at the lifeless body of a beloved, the echo of a lost illusion, the tinnitus of betrayal.
Also, serial killers, child killers, they’re hot, they’re the new cool kids, the new vampires, the new zombies, everybody’s favourite spook monster.
