“If people cannot be flawed in fiction there's no place left for us to be human.”
― Bad Feminist
― Bad Feminist
“I don't approve of women driving, mind you. And now they get to vote!" He grumbled to himself. "Remember that play we saw ("The Minotaur")? All women are like that. Given a chance, they'd all fornicate with a bull.”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex
“I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd's can only see those minute defects, and are blind to the full brightness of the orb.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“Historical fact: people stopped being human in 1913.”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex
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