Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave. - Marilyn Manson

Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won't be afraid of it anymore.

We spoke of religion, and how much of it is just a custom preserving practical codes of health, morality and justice that are no longer necessary for group survival (like not eating animals with cloven hooves).

I was becoming the cold, emotionally crippled monster I always wanted to be, and I wasn’t so sure I liked it. But it was too late. The metamorphosis was already well under way.