天右嚔赤

“Nothing is less trustworthy than a woman's tears.”
― Wataru Watari, やはり鯵の楳敢ラブコメはまちがっている。1

“Much, much later. when I am back home and being treated for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). I will be enabled to see what was going on in my mind immediately after 11 August.

I am still capable of operating mechanically as a soldier in these following days. But operating mechanically as a soldier is now all I am capable of.

Martin says he is worried about me. He says I have the thousand-yard stare'.

Of course, I cannot see this stare. But by now we both have more than an idea what it means.

So, among all the soldiers here, this is nothing to be ashamed of. But as it really does just go with the territory we find ourselves in. it is just as equally not a badge of honour.

Martin is seasoned enough to never even think this. but I know of young men back home, sitting in front of war films and war games, who idolise this condition as some kind of mark of a true warrior. But from where I sit, if indeed I do have this stare, this pathetically naive thinking is a crock of shit. Because only some pathetically naive soul who had never felt this nothingness would say something so fucking dumb.

You are no longer human, with all those depths and highs and nuances of emotion that define you as a person.
There is no feeling any more, because to feel any emotion would also be to beckon the overwhelming blackness from you. My mind has now locked all this down. And without any control of this self-defence mechanism my subconscious has operated. I do not feel any more.

But when I close my eyes. I see the dead Taliban looking into this blackness. And I see the Afghan soldier's face staring into it, singing gently as he slips into another world. And I see Dave Hicks's face. shaking gently as he tries to stay awake in this one.

With this, I lift myself up, sitting foetal and hugging my knees on my sleeping mat.”
― Jake Wood, Among You: The Extraordinary True Story of a Soldier Broken By War

“You said this place was haunted,¨ Shooting Glasses tells her.
｀By all the ghosts of who everybody used to want to be, before they died inside,¨ Jade says.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw

“I have a large pain threshold. In fact, it's less than a threshold and more like a tastefully decorated foyer."

~ Jace Wayland”
― Cassandra Clare

“And in the silence I suddenly understood the many ways a person can die but still be alive.”
― Carmen Rodrigues, 34 Pieces of You

“There was a time that [my mother's death] would have made me cry, but that's the good thing about being dead inside, I guess. Dead people don't feel pain.”
― Ally Carter, See How They Run

“Inside, the building was vacant and cold, much like the rest of my crew.”
― Corey Lamb, I Am Become Apocalypse

“Forever is used for memories and not the people”
― Reia2524

“Believe me, it¨s true. Whoever comes into my life I poison their hearts and souls and kill their spirits. I do that because I¨m dead inside. I died a long time ago. I¨m not alive and I don¨t want others to live. This is why I¨m the way I am. I destroy everything and everyone.”
― Kenan Hudaverdi, Nazar: ＾Self-Fulling Prophecy Realized￣

“Oh, I hated him then! Then I would have killed him, were it in my power！he had a squalid nature, that man, he was dead inside, stinking and rotten and dead.”
― Patrick McGrath, Spider

“Are you this way with everyone you know? So abrupt and dismissive?"
"What do you care?" he sneered.
She exhaled forcefully, having lost all patience. "I care because I breathe and think and laugh and cry. I care because I'm alive. I suspect that you, Mr. Greycourt, have been dead for a very long time.”
― Elizabeth Hoyt, No Ordinary Duchess