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“Our massacres are only interrupted by commercial breaks. Judges legalize them. Correspondents kill us with passive voice. If we are lucky, diplomats say that our death concerns them, but they never mention the culprit, let alone condemn the culprit. Politicians, inert, inept, or complicit, fund our demise, then feign sympathy, if any. Academics stand idle. That is, until the dust settles, then they will write books about what should have been.”
― Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal
― Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal
“Why not say that you made a choice, that you knew what you were doing was wrong, and that you did it anyway? Why continue coasting on your trauma? It's not a good look at your age.”
― Big Swiss
― Big Swiss
“the shrink diagnosed her with emotional detachment disorder, which seemed like a stretch to Greta, who preferred to think of it as “poise” on a bad day, “grace” on a good one, and, when she was feeling full of herself, “serenity.”
― Big Swiss
― Big Swiss
“These people knew what whiskeys were good, what wine was the thing with this food, that food, what places to go, how to dance, how to smoke, how much stress to put on love, how to dress, when to curse, and did not indulge, for the most part, in homosexuality, but could discuss it without eagerness, distate, curiosity, without anything but ennui.”
― Maud Martha
― Maud Martha
“His pleasure at seeing me was so genuine, so unmistakable, that even I, with my inbred suspicions, lost all fear.”
― Reunion
― Reunion
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