“Can't you see you're incapable of thinking for yourself? The only thing you do is follow the norms imposed on you. Can't you see that this whole thing is a superficial act? Are you even capable of feeling something, really feeling it? I mean, have you ever cared about Dad?”
― Tender Is the Flesh
― Tender Is the Flesh
“How many hearts need to be stored in boxes for the pain to be transformed into something else? But the pain, he intuits, is the only thing that keeps him breathing. Without the sadness, he has nothing left.”
― Tender Is the Flesh
― Tender Is the Flesh
“There is a lot of this kind of sadness here. It slips in like the fog at night. The fog that creeps out of the ocean to survey the land that one day she thinks will eventually be hers.”
― The Seas
― The Seas
“Today I’m the butcher, tomorrow I might be the cattle”
― Tender Is the Flesh
― Tender Is the Flesh
“[...] she screams as if the world didn't exist, she screams as if words had split in two and lost all meaning, she screams as if beneath this hell there was another hell, one from which she didn't want to escape.”
― Tender Is the Flesh
― Tender Is the Flesh
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