“She wished him to owe his recovery to her alone - to her care, to her tireless devotion. That is the other side of selflessness: it tyranny.”
― The Blind Assassin
― The Blind Assassin
“I should have screamed. I should have thrown tantrums. It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease as Reenie used to say.”
― The Blind Assassin
― The Blind Assassin
“Hands like stumps: those hands could rescue you or beat you to a pulp and they would look the same while doing either thing.”
― The Blind Assassin
― The Blind Assassin
“Last time he saw there was a bruise on her thigh. He wished he'd made it himself.”
― The Blind Assassin
― The Blind Assassin
“The scent of moist dirt and fresh growth washes in over me, watery, slippery, with an acid taste to it like the bark of a tree. It smells like youth; it smells like heartbreak.”
― The Blind Assassin
― The Blind Assassin
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