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Cat's Eye
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If I were to meet Cordelia again, what would I tell her about myself? The truth, or whatever would make me look good?
“Don't ask who planted the bomb; in those days there were many such planters, many gardeners of violence.”
― Shame
― Shame
“Unashamed, accustomed to solitude, he began to enjoy his near-invisibility. From his position at the edge of the school around him, he took vicarious pleasure in the activities of those around him, silently celebrating the rise or fall of this or that playground emperor, or the examination failures of particularly unappetizing class-fellows: the delights of the spectator.”
― Shame
― Shame
“And - as is perhaps the universal custom of aristocratically bred persons - they reacted to the news of their ruin by resolving to throw a party.”
― Shame
― Shame
“(...) every story one chooses to tell is a kind of censorship, it prevents the telling of other tales (...)”
― Shame
― Shame
“The disgrace of your barrenness, Madam, is not yours alone. Don't you know that shame is collective? The shame of any one of us sits on us all and bends our backs. See what you're doing to your husband's people, how you repay the ones who took you in when you came penniless and a fugitive from that godless country over there.”
― Shame
― Shame
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