“Betrayal wears a lot of different hats. You don’t have to make a show of it like Brutus did, you don’t have to leave anything visible jutting from the base of your best friend’s spine, and afterward you can stand there straining your ears for hours, but you won’t hear a cock crow either. No, the most insidious betrayals are done merely by leaving the life jacket hanging in your closet while you lie to yourself that it’s probably not the drowning man’s size. That’s how we slide,
and while we slide we blame the world’s problems on colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, corporatism, stupid white men, and America, but there’s no need to make a brand name of blame. Individual self-interest: that’s the source of our descent, and it doesn’t start in the boardrooms or the war rooms either. It starts in the home.”
― A Fraction of the Whole
and while we slide we blame the world’s problems on colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, corporatism, stupid white men, and America, but there’s no need to make a brand name of blame. Individual self-interest: that’s the source of our descent, and it doesn’t start in the boardrooms or the war rooms either. It starts in the home.”
― A Fraction of the Whole
“اگر نمیرفت، پشیمان میشد. زندگیاش به هم میریخت. از لیلا هم متنفر میشد که جلوش را گرفته. من هم پشیمان میشوم اگر نروم. ده سال دیگر نمینشینم جلوی خودم هی مثل این راننده آه بکشم؟ نمیگویم روجا، اگر میرفتی زندگی ات خوب میشد؟ هی حسرت نمیخورم؟ میخورم، میدانم. حسرت نمیگذارد زندگی کنم. نمیگذارد خوشبخت باشم. همهی خوشحالیهایم را میخورد. لِهم میکند اصلا”
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“خائنانه ترین خیانتها آنهایی هستند که وقتی یک جلیقهی نجات در کمدت آویزان است، به خودت دروغ میگویی که احتمالا اندازهی کسیکه دارد غرق میشود نیست.”
― A Fraction of the Whole
― A Fraction of the Whole
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