The nightmare wasnt always exactly the same but after it was over it always seemed as if it had been. Year after year Harry would bolt up in bed occasionally, near dead with terror, trying to shove the weight off his chest so he could
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“Cant fight City Hall. But maybe you can burn it down.”
― Waiting Period
― Waiting Period
“The quickest way for a modern Japanese woman to gain the love of a man is to become corpse-like. The kind of men who want those women are dead themselves. Indeed, it’s because they’re dead that they’re so terrified of anyone with a sense of life about them.”
― Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder
― Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder
“This darkness of being alive without being able to live is inhuman.”
― Waiting Period
― Waiting Period
“A day almost indistinguishable from the previous one, different only as each day is always new, the pain new yet old and endless.”
― Waiting Period
― Waiting Period
“For what purpose, exactly, do you want to lose weight? Are you worried about not being attractive to men? Because in that case, you have nothing to fear. Men are naturally attracted to shapely, full-figured women. When I say men, I’m of course referring to real men, who are emotionally mature, affluent, and capable of generosity. Men who favour women with bodies like skinny children are the ones with no confidence in themselves. They’re without exception servile, sexually and emotionally immature, with no capacity for financial generosity, either.”
― Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder
― Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder
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