Maddy

“I wonder if this is flirting, but it can’t be. Flirting is supposed to be fun and this is too heavy for fun.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“I loved the math of it, three times my age, how easy it was to imagine three of me fitting inside him: one of me curled around his brain, another around his heart, the third turned to liquid and sliding through his veins.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“Maybe that’s what this has always been about—not wanting these men but wanting to be them.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“In order to establish a totalitarian regime, terror must be presented as an instrument for carrying out a specific ideology; and that ideology must have won the adherence of many, and even a majority, before terror can be stabilized.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism