“Because he wasn't like Nadia Niverman's husband, who took the ugliness of his hangovers out on his wife. Eric was one of those I call the pros of the bottle. People who know how to spread a slow, day-long binge of hard liquor, who don't let anything show because they never actually get drunk. Even if he seemed like a good guy, there's always a toll to be paid to your dark side. We all wear a mask to hide the worst part of ourselves. Eric's was peppermints.” EvilLiquorDrunkennessCan T Hold His LiquorCloudcuckoolander Book:L'ipotesi del male Source: L'ipotesi del male
“In the interrogation room, silence was used as torture. But it was an invisible cruelty. No law prohibited. A few hours earlier, in the same place where Michael Ivanovich had been, Simon Berish was now locked up. Unlike the others who had passed through the room, he knew the reason why the white walls were covered with sound-absorbing material. The principle was that of an "anechoic chamber," where sounds cannot penetrate. The body compensates for the absence by creating artificial noises—tinnitus, ringing. As time passes, one becomes less and less able to distinguish reality, from the imagination.” Eldritch LocationCreepy CleanlinessHell Is That Noise Book:L'ipotesi del male Source: L'ipotesi del male