Joe Inthasone

“Once you’ve been through certain experiences, you may as well accept that your life from that point on will be one massive Ferris wheel of the same emotional trauma, relived and recycled, over and over.”
― Joe Dunthorne, Submarine

“Unhappy people have a role in society—and that is to make the rest of us feel better.”
― Joe Dunthorne, Submarine

“I love you more than words. And I am a big fan of words.”
― Joe Dunthorne, Submarine

“I’ve seen Moscow, Paris, and London, among other cities, and experienced Bolshevism, Parliamentarianism, and Fascism close up, as an ordinary person among ordinary people. Are there differences? Yes, substantial ones. But from what I can tell the distinctions are mostly ones of form and coloration, of the rules of play, not differences in the greater or lesser fortunes of common people, which Candide was so concerned about. And the individuals I encountered who were meek, subservient, and uninterested in any existence other than the one they were born to didn’t seem any unhappier in Moscow than they did in Paris or Berlin—all of them lived by adjusting their souls to the prevailing conditions.”
― Anonymous, A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary