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“What a weird place this was, I thought. It felt completely isolated and, partly because of the cold, like being on another planet. I wondered if there were planets where it’s okay to murder people. I decided there must be, reminding myself that in war, after all, killers are heroes.”
― In the Miso Soup
― In the Miso Soup
“What makes somebody nice or unpleasant to be around is the way they communicate. When people are fucked up, their communication is fucked up.”
― In the Miso Soup
― In the Miso Soup
“That was with me for years—feeling I wasn’t myself. And I do think I wasn’t my real self then. Of course, I’m not sure there is such a thing as a real self. You could ransack your innards looking for the real you and never find it—slice yourself open and all you’ll find is blood and muscle and bone. . . .”
― In the Miso Soup
― In the Miso Soup
“I grew up on a farm. It’s why I’m so tall.”
Alys frowned. “You’re a little too tall.”
“It was a really big farm.”
--Jesper”
― Crooked Kingdom
Alys frowned. “You’re a little too tall.”
“It was a really big farm.”
--Jesper”
― Crooked Kingdom
“Basically people who love horror movies are people with boring lives. They want to be stimulated, and they need to reassure themselves, because when a really scary movie is over, you’re reassured to see that you’re still alive and the world still exists as it did before. That’s the real reason we have horror films—they act as shock absorbers—and if they disappeared altogether it would mean losing one of the few ways we have to ease the anxiety of the imagination. And I bet you’d see a big leap in the number of serial killers and mass murderers. After all, anyone stupid enough to get the idea of murdering people from a movie could get the same idea from watching the news, right?”
― In the Miso Soup
― In the Miso Soup
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