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“Because when you are twenty-three you will slum it for love. You will sit in the back row on purpose. You will live in a dumpster and sleep on top of newspaper and fall in love with a boy who is named Ariel. You will meet him at a punk venue and he will take you on a first date where you play pinball and do kissing. You will say: I know this is bad. And yet. And yet. Life can be very beautiful when you squint hard from the shit seats, in that place called Paradise.”
― Sophie Kemp, Paradise Logic

“People who lack all sympathy are feeling better about themselves. The more a person doesn’t care the freer he becomes. The new thinking is that compassion is nothing but self-cannibalization.” Gordon”
― Joy Williams, Harrow

“Your empathies are obsolete. The battle’s over”
― Joy Williams, Harrow

“I was pretty sure I had negated any soul-cleansing properties by having intercourse and doing bong rips.”
― Sophie Kemp, Paradise Logic