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“I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.”
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“I always thought it was a question of achieving some permanent state of tranquillity ... but it's not. It's more like learning to surf. The waves keep rolling in, each different from the last, and you have to ride them, instead of getting pounded to bits.”
― Other Women
― Other Women
“If this was adulthood, the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that now she could eat dessert without eating her vegetables.”
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“no pain was permanent, and no loss was real. That even though people treated each other abominably, even though they left, even though you let them go, even though you never laid eyes on them again, this fugue that linked you continued, whether you liked it or not.”
― Bedrock
― Bedrock
“Whatever I experienced in the world that I didn't understand I'd invent a story and workout my understanding of something through the story.”
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“...ninety percent of violent crimes are committed by men," Caroline was saying. "All day long I bandage up women and children whom men have raped, knifed, beaten, shot, strangled. And you yourself live with one of those fuckers, Hannah. You say you love him. You repose under the tent of benefits his white American male privilege provides--at the expense of the rest of us. You try getting through life without a man to protect you from the violence of other men. Then see if you can talk to me about joy!”
― Other Women
― Other Women
“When you've been at it as long as I have, when you've treated people under all sorts of circumstances, when you've treated their parents and their children, you begin to see patterns. Illness doesn't strike randomly, like a theif in the night. Certain types of people at certain points in their lives will come down with certain kinds of ailments. You can almost predict it after a while. A disease can serve the same function for an alert doctor as a Rorschach inkblot for a psychologist; it's a form of existential self-expression for a patient. I know this may sound a little farfetched, but disease is not arbitrary, and it does not ' attack' .”
― Kinflicks
― Kinflicks
