Hold My Hand In Hell

'My dearest brother, its been so long!'
'Yes, my sister. Fondest greetings to my kindest kin!'
'To think we meet again, and you're dressed so wonderfully too.'
'Yes, indeed, we all have our finest moments, do we not? Take my hand! Let us go to a wonderful place!'
'That would be wonderous indeed. Will there be crumpets and or tea?'
'We shall see, now look around!'
'Ah, masquerades and hollow faces. I do not wish to be associated among mad people!'
'Oh, you can't help that. We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad. Or I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting you again. Besides, being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose we know.'
'Why, the apples here are red as a rose in a midsummer's day!'
'And perhaps they may be beautiful as them, if called by any other name. Perhaps you are tempted to pick them, to which I urge you to. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and the soul grows sick with longing. But watch the serpents, for it is them who stand guard with vigilant strictness. Courtesy of my dearest cousin!'
'These apples are sweet. How delightful! I didn't know you had a cousin!'
'Yes, I do. He is very sick at the moment. But in the end, the commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it. Shall we continue from the company of these rather bumpy dancers?'
'Yes, but what a wonderous gate you have here! Of pearls and glass, what delight!'
'I'm afraid black pearls and shattered glass mean an entirely different thing, dear sister.'
'They are, in essence, the same. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.'
'I pray you do not mean that as an insult, my kin, for I am taken aback!'
'Of course not, what is light without its shadow! Contrast is what shows us the terrible face of the bitter world, but it is also what makes ordinary men seem like heroes!'
'Yes, but it is also in contrast that man is most misunderstood, and such misunderstandings are, sometimes, for the sake of human psychological limits, best not taken.'
'Oh but blood on the knife and blood in the hand that did it, what difference does it make. Mankind will collapse under its own weight, petty hopes and dreams are what keep scoundrels occupied while that happens.'
'And I shall be practical in saying that the acts that the world calls immoral are acts that show the world its own shame. But alas, our talk had best cease. We have arrived, and I must show you the person who taught me everything; that the advantage of emotions is that they lead us astray, how vengeance spares not the weak nor the strong, that murder and masquerades are essentially the same. Here he is, th-'

'What are you doing, dearie?' said the caretaker, and the little girl took up the colorful pictures on her table, put them aside, and stared at her with pale blue eyes,

and oh-so innocently, said 'Just drawing'.



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Okay that was just done for the sake of it, but its okay. Quotes quotes quotes.

Mom: Eh my colleagues all curious ah. They say you so tall and so handsome, they ask whether you got girlfriend anot.
Me: Tell them I'm not interested in older women.

Pretty song:

Azazyl

Stench of humanity,
The rot of those fair.
Despair!
Of lost sanity and
Dreams never there.