“My father did not become the bad guy for me. Not yet. That day I hated my mother for killing my father, but also for all the reasons you cannot say. Part of my child brain hated her because she wasn’t young enough or even beautiful enough. Because she wasn’t strong enough. Or because she was too strong. Because she was so complex where my father was not. I hated my mother, in short, for being a woman.”
― Animal
― Animal
“I recall that your hands were on her, but her eyes were on me,' Cardan returns.”
― The Queen of Nothing
― The Queen of Nothing
“Men were always putting their coats around my shoulders. They mark their territory that way. It’s better to freeze to death.”
― Animal
― Animal
“The man is nothing. It’s what you think you are missing inside of yourself. I promise that you are missing nothing.”
― Animal
― Animal
“… my mother said to me, You love your father better, and that is all right. I thought she was being petty, but suddenly I could call up the pain in her eyes. The unfairness that I thought he was the better of the two of them.
My father did not love one family more than the other. It was that he didn’t care about either more than he cared about himself.”
― Animal
My father did not love one family more than the other. It was that he didn’t care about either more than he cared about himself.”
― Animal
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