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“As someone who judges people every day, given my age I’ve demonstrated an embarrassing inability to judge myself. I didn’t realise that I only ever revealed a few sides of myself to those around me, instead wandering around believing others thought me to be as vulnerable as I felt. It’s because you look the way you do, nobody believes you could possibly feel any weakness, my ex once told me.”
― Helga Flatland, En moderne familie

“Grown apart? Future? Seriously, you’re seventy years old!”
― Helga Flatland, En moderne familie

“There is a logic to organizing. Everything has its place, even the tiniest scrap fits in a closed ecosystem. There is no excess, the mosquito is as essential as the chimney, the tea bag will be reborn an eagle. Even the shekel is a native of this earth, mined from the depths of Chile or Utah. Sorting brought me comfort, order is relief.”
― Yasmin Zaher, The Coin

“Hypocrites were easy to find in the Senate, but their flexible values meant they were also uncommonly willing to negotiate and compromise, so the systems of government never ground to a halt.”
― Alexander Freed, The Mask of Fear