Luke Dumas > Quotes

“but he didn’t want to be supported by fat people and the average-bodied White women who shouldered their way in; he wanted to be supported by the medical community who never stopped making him feel like he was on the brink of death and bringing society down with him.”
― Luke Dumas, Nothing Tastes as Good

“In a house where food was love but eating was shameful, family meals were both a relief and a curse, a volatile push-and-pull of comfort and fear.”
― Luke Dumas, Nothing Tastes as Good

“With Colleen’s passing, something fractured inside of Simon. Something like a bone—a part of him that, even if it managed to heal, would always bear evidence of its imperfection. A tiny part of him that would always be broken.”
― Luke Dumas, The Paleontologist

“But the sick feeling tugging down on his heart, that was real. The never-ending humiliation and degradation, that was real. The feeling of being trapped inside his own body, inside his own life: that was as real as it fucking came.”
― Luke Dumas, Nothing Tastes as Good

“He had understood that, like the site of a nuclear tragedy, the place was uninhabitable for him now.”
― Luke Dumas, The Paleontologist

“Hi—my name’s Emmett. Not participant number 82941. Because I am a human boy”
― Luke Dumas, Nothing Tastes as Good

“Aaron used his Thunderbolt. It was super-effective.”
― Luke Dumas, Nothing Tastes as Good

“Editor’s Note Exhibit F Further case notes prepared by Kathleen Prichard, mental health counselor at HMP Edinburgh. 17 October 2017 Today patient disclosed past mental health struggles, namely a three-year bout of what he calls “satanophobia,” i.e., extreme fear of the Devil coupled with persecutory delusions that the Devil is “after him,” visual hallucinations of winged creatures (“fiends”), feelings of hopelessness, and suicidal ideations. Multiple times patient mentioned having felt, at the onset of and throughout his condition, that there lay inside of him a kind of darkness, or evil, that attracted the Devil like a magnet. Patient could not describe this “darkness” further. Unclear what it could represent. Possible manifestation of some form of unconscious repression, perhaps as the result of patient’s religious upbringing? Will continue to explore in future sessions but will need to tread carefully.”
― Luke Dumas, A History of Fear

“Unlike the corporate world, which worshipped at the altar of profit and would slit any throat to keep shareholders happy, the nonprofit world traded in affinity, devotion. In family legacies that often went back generations.”
― Luke Dumas, The Paleontologist

“Because fat isn’t something you wear”
― Luke Dumas, Nothing Tastes as Good

“We’re a publicly traded company founded in 2011 focused on innovating solutions to overweight and obesity.”
― Luke Dumas, Nothing Tastes as Good

“Hm?” Evie said. “What’s that?” “How one act of violence can impact so many. One moment of evil, or desperation. How even the simplest, most innocent act of survival—to eat, or defend oneself, or soothe one’s pain—makes waves. Ripples across the planet, and millions of years.”
― Luke Dumas, The Paleontologist

“He wondered if all this inequality discourse—important as it is, he hastened to add—had not the ability to reinforce divisions rather than erode them, to make enemies of good men and martyrs of unlikable women. Whatever happened to treating people how you wished to be treated?”
― Luke Dumas, The Paleontologist

“Health”
― Luke Dumas, Nothing Tastes as Good

“For anyone who has sought refuge in the prehistoric past in order to escape their present.”
― Luke Dumas, The Paleontologist

“In a house where food was love but eating was shameful, family meals were both a relief and a curse, a volatile push and pull of comfort and fear.”
― Luke Dumas, Nothing Tastes as Good