Fleur

“Anna despises two classes of people: first, those who own their own homes and have cars and families, and second, everybody else. Constantly she is on the verge of exploding. With rage. A pool of pure red. The pool is filled with speechlessness that talks away at her nonstop.”
― Elfriede Jelinek, Wonderful, Wonderful Times

“I get the idea perfectly, Mickey," said Archimboldi, thinking all the while that this man was not only irritating but ridiculous, with the particular ridiculousness of self-dramatizers and poor fools convinced they've been present at a decisive moment in history, when it's common knowledge, thought Archimboldi, that history, which is a simple whore, has no decisive moments but is a proliferation of instants, brief interludes that vie with one another in monstrousness.”
― Roberto Bolano, 2666

“A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.”
― David Mitchell, Ghostwritten

“What do you mean you've been spying on me, with this thing in my hand that is an eye?”
― Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This