Matthew Purnell
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“Are you a virgin, Clikk?...I’ve noticed you never visit the brothels when we hit the port…'
'I have standards. Women are like locks. If they give too easy, they aren’t worth the trouble. The ones that require precision, effort and clever maneuvering, are those that hold the greatest treasures.'
'True, true,' he said, 'And women are also like light. Go long enough without them and you start to go mad, to the point you contrive disturbing metaphors about women and locks.”
― Sky Song Overture
'I have standards. Women are like locks. If they give too easy, they aren’t worth the trouble. The ones that require precision, effort and clever maneuvering, are those that hold the greatest treasures.'
'True, true,' he said, 'And women are also like light. Go long enough without them and you start to go mad, to the point you contrive disturbing metaphors about women and locks.”
― Sky Song Overture
“Nostalgia is recall without the criticism of the present day, all the good parts, memory without the pain. Finally, nostalgia asks so little of us, just to be noticed and revisited;”
― Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir
― Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir
“Without courage, our generation is doomed to another decade of political disenfranchisement and shit music.”
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“Femininity itself has become a brand, a narrow and shrinking formula of commoditised identity which can be sold back to women who have become alienated from their own power as living, loving, labouring beings.”
― Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism
― Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism
“Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall; that is what she has made of my life.”
― Snow, Glass, Apples
― Snow, Glass, Apples
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