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“Men may be the head of the house, but the women are the neck, and they can turn the head any way they want.”
― Debra Ollivier, What French Women Know About Love, Sex and Other Matters of the Heart and Mind

“There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.”
― Alfred North Whitehead

“May the odds be ever in your favor!”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“I’ve got to admire the Aokis of this world. Their ability to lay low until the right moment, their knack for latching on to opportunities, their skill in fucking with people’s minds—that’s no ordinary talent.
I hate their kind so much it makes me want to puke, but it is a talent.

“No, what really scares me is how easily, how uncritically, people will believe the crap that slime like Aoki deal out. How these Aoki types produce nothing themselves, don’t have an idea in the world, and talk so nice, how this slime can sway gullible types to any opinion and get them to perform on cue, as a group. And this group never entertains even a sliver of doubt that they could be wrong. They think nothing of hurting someone, senselessly, permanently. They don’t take any responsibility for their actions. Them. They’re the real monsters.
They’re the ones I have nightmares about. In those dreams, there’s only the silence. And these faceless people. Their silence seeps into everything like ice water. And then it all goes murky. And I’m dissolving and I’m screaming, but no one hears.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes