It wasn’t that she disliked leading these men, but doing the same thing every day—drills, plateau runs—numbed her mind.
“Thinking is something I can save for later.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
“rocks. The flow may have been limited”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
“A good portion of these people believed that if the communists won—which they refused to believe would happen—what awaited them was prison or a garrote”
― The Sympathizer
― The Sympathizer
“They could hardly be blamed for their ill temper, since our vaunted premier had gone on the radio the day before to ask all soldiers and citizens to fight to the last man. It was pointless to point out that the premier, who was also the air marshal and who should not be confused with the president except in his venality and vanity, had himself left on a helicopter shortly after broadcasting his heroic message.”
― The Sympathizer
― The Sympathizer
“You don’t get it,” she said. “Don’t get what?” “We are one.” “We are one?” Tengo asked with a shock. “We wrote the book together.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
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