“I am not like
other people.
I am
burning in hell. the hell of
myself.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
“I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.”
— John Green, book Looking for Alaska
Dr. Hyde explaining a quote by Rabe'a al-Adiwiyah, p. 174
Looking for Alaska (2005)
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