18 Quotes by Aubrey Dark

Some might say that suicide is for cowards. I dare them to hold a razor to their wrists and say it as they slice into their own flesh.

Pain and pleasure aren’t really different, are they?” he asked. “Like flipping your pillow over in the middle of the night. One side warm, one cold. You must have one before the other feels good again.

I wanted her to live, then I had to break her. To make her think that she would be better off here, where I kept her in chains. I would have to make her love me. It was the only chance I had to keep myself from killing her.

In the dark, he had taken me completely and then given me back to myself.

How could he do this to me with his body? I was no survivor. I was nothing in his arms. I was only his.

The fear of death was a powerful emotion. It dropped away everything else and cleansed people of their sins.

The fear of death was a powerful emotion. It dropped away everything else and cleansed people of their sins. Nobody, not even the cruelest man, can hold onto their cruelty in the face of death. It takes away their power, makes them humble.

The first emotion to go was happiness. It went hiding one day, and I thought it would come back, but it didn’t. I searched for it for a while, then one day I stopped searching. I had forgotten what it felt like, or why I was searching for it in the first place.

I don’t deal in comfort. I deal in pain and pleasure. Specifically, other people’s pain. My pleasure.