“Why do we live so painfully in our fictions? Why do we suffer so, from the things we ourselves have invented?”
― Second Place
― Second Place
“I’m broken by my need for others. By the erotic dance of memory that pounces when loneliness falls.”
― Tin Man
― Tin Man
“If you have always been criticised, from before you can remember, it becomes more or less impossible to locate yourself in the time or space before the criticism was made: to believe, in other words, that you yourself exist.”
― Second Place
― Second Place
“It’s your body, you can treat it however you please. The only area where you’re free to do just as you like. And even that doesn’t turn out how you wanted.”
― The Vegetarian
― The Vegetarian
“As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won't let my spirit be destroyed.”
― Kitchen
― Kitchen
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