Lester Cole Quotes

In people's eyes I readPages of malice and sin.

Maybe we all have a dark place inside of us, a place where dark thoughts and darker dreams live, but it doesn't have to become who we are.

Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true motives of their hearts in the specious cloak of sociableness, and their concern for the public good, they are in hopes of concealing their filthy appetites and the deformity of their desires.

I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on.

If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities.

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

We cannot see but a small depth into the heart of man, and can only discover the work of his tongue.

A character should always have a secret. I feel like we all do.

Anybody's life is probably a mess of secrets and lies when you boil it right down.

Evil comes in many forms, and whether you are male or female, that doesn't matter as much as what lurks in your mind.

We definitely like to write songs about darker things, but we like to think of it as a celebration of the evil ideas that run through everybody's head.

People looking up at her--at her smooth pretty vivacious face--had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind.

I never feel the need to go out and make some grand statement that I'm dark and twisty and complicated, because I'm not that either. It's just not as simple as ponies and rainbows, though I do love ponies and rainbows.

You know what the really scary thing about bad dreams? It's that something's going on in your head, and you can't control it. I mean, It's like there's these bad worlds inside you. But it's just you... it's like you're betraying yourself.

In My Secret Life" "I saw you this morning, you were moving so fast. Can't seem to loosen my grip On the past. And I miss you so much, there's no one in sight. And we're still making love In my secret life. I smile when I am angry, I cheat and I lie, I do what I have to do to get by, In my secret life.

It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.

Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you.

Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters.

If people could see the inside of my brain, I would be in prison.

There is no knowing what is in a man's heart.

beware the Lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready Assumption that the lovely Fa&#231ade must needs have lovely Chambers within; for as 'tis with Great Houses, so, too, with Great Men.

I believe there's a killer in all of us. I know there's one inside me. When you know the killer in you and you know also that you do not want to kill, you have to set yourself upon a course of learning. Not to kill that killer then, but to control it.

We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36)

The monster likes to talk; he jumps into your head and opens your mouth, making it spout your deepest darkest deceptions. Making you say all the things you'd rather not say, at least not in mixed company." (Ellen Hopkins)

I simply write what I want, wish, long to write.... The state of human life and the god or demon within. The constant internal war that being alive can conjure.