Quotes by Oliver Markus

Nobody has ever killed themselves over a broken arm. But every day, thousands of people kill themselves because of a broken heart. Why? Because emotional pain hurts much worse than physical pain.

Calling a book Young Adult is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored. People used to say they like to read books about romance, true crime, comedy, horror or science fiction. But these days people simply say they like to read Young Adult books. As if that were a topic. But thats the thing: Young Adult is not a topic, its a level of censorship. Saying I like Young Adult books is just another way of saying I like books that have been dumbed down for children. I like books with no big words and no difficult abstract concepts. Nothing that will strain my brain. People like to brag that they used to start reading at an early age, as if that were a badge of honor, a sign of intelligence. Nobody brags about when they started to watch TV. But books are being dumbed down so much these days, its really not a sign of great intelligence when youre a grown up and you struggle your way through Green Eggs and Ham.

Calling a book Young Adult is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored.

The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.

God is Santa Claus for Grown-Ups.

Take the Holocaust for example: Why did God allow Hitler to kill millions of innocent Jews? Because God didnt want to step on Hitlers toes and interfere with his free will? Thats a pretty lame excuse. What about the free will of all those Jews who died? Im pretty sure that getting gassed to death was obviously not their choice. So, was the Holocaust part of Gods great plan? Is that why he allowed it to happen? Is that why God didnt answer the prayers of all those Jews who begged him to make Hitler drop dead? Why didnt God just make Hitler have a heart attack before he could start World War 2? Why didnt he simply prevent Hitler from being born? How could a God who is supposed to be all good all the time allow something like the Holocaust?Or did God not just LET it happen? Maybe God MADE the Holocaust happen, because everything that happens, happens for a good reason? Are our minds simply too tiny, too inferior, to understand Gods divine plan? Are we just too stupid to see the greater good that came out of the Holocaust?If that were true, and everything that happens, including the Holocaust, is part of Gods perfect plan, then that means that Hitler really wasnt a bad man at all. He was actually doing Gods work. And if Hitler did exactly what he was supposed to do in Gods great plan, then Hitler obviously didnt have free will, but was just Gods puppet. So that means Hitler was a good guy. A man of God.Sorry, but there is no religion in the world that could sell me on believing THAT bullshit.

The red lipstick? Its supposed to signal fertility and readiness to mate. Just like the swollen red butt of a baboon. That tight-fitting little dress that shows off your curves? From the standpoint of evolutionary biology, big breasts represent a healthy mate who can feed a lot of offspring. Thats why men are programmed to like big tits. When you show off your curves, what youre really doing is advertising to the whole world: Look at me! Im a healthy female! Id be a perfect mate! Come mount me!

Check the top 1000 books on Amazon. Most of them have a shirtless guy on the cover, because theyre smutty romance novels (read: porn for women) about a girl being swept off her feet by one (or more) billionaire alpha-males. There are literally tens of thousands of books out there about shirtless billionaire alpha-male vampires who cant wait to mate with you. Lucky you! And women eat that shit up! Men, not so much. Men prefer to watch actual porn.

Its like playing the lottery. It doesnt matter how extremely low the chances are of winning. You gotta be in it to win it. Hitting on every girl in sight is like buying a whole lot of lottery tickets. You never know, one day one of them might actually pay off.

Its never ok to hit a girl. Never. Not even if she cheats on you. A girl is not your property. Shes a human being. She is just as important as you. She is your equal. And her wishes and feelings are just as valid as yours. All you can do is treat her nice, and hope she wants to be with you. If she chooses to be with you, great! If not, or if she chooses to leave you at some point, you have to let her go. You have no right to stop her. You dont own her, and you dont have the right to tell her what to do. Shes your partner. Not your servant, not your sex slave, and not your punching bag.

A horrible end is better than endless horror.

When you push someones head under water for 5 minutes, they will drown. It doesnt matter if the person is a sinner or a saint. Its just a natural process. If their head is under water, the lack of oxygen will make them drown. That rule applies to everyone, good or bad, equally. It doesnt matter if the drowning person has strong moral fiber.And it doesnt matter if youre a good or a bad person, once you become addicted to drugs. What happens next is inevitable. Its a natural process that happens in everyones brain, once the drugs take over. So dont ever fool yourself into thinking that only weak or bad people get addicted.

Being mad at a drug addict for doing what drug addicts do, is like being mad at a shark for doing what sharks do, or being mad at a cockroach for doing what cockroaches do.

Addicts dont like when you tell them they are all the same. Of course not. Who would? But to me, addicts are like actresses, who all audition for the same role in a horror movie. It doesnt matter how they got to the audition. It doesnt matter how or where they grew up, once they get to the audition, all the actresses act in the same way and read the same lines. They all become the same character.

I purposely used a pretty cocky, abrasive writing style in Sex and Crime, to stir up some drama. My confrontational style quickly became the talk of the scene. Some of the things I wrote were so inflammatory, people had to vent about it on online forums. So suddenly everyone in the scene was talking about Sex and Crime, just as I had hoped. I enjoyed playing the role of agitator, and people from competing hacking crews didnt even realize that the more they bitched about the things I wrote, the more credibility and notoriety they were adding to my scene mag. Thanks to all the positive as well as negative feedback I was getting, the things I wrote actually mattered. Suddenly I was the most important opinion maker in the scene.

Stephanie had been raped, beaten and left for dead on the Atlantic City Boardwalk several times. Youd think she would have hit rock bottom after those experiences. But no. None of that made her quit. It just made her want to use even more drugs, to forget her miserable life. As long as she could get high, she didnt care if she was being raped in a dark alley. At this point in her life, a lethal overdose probably would have felt like her salvation.