Stanley

“Strange,” said Natalie. “What?” “Two gunshot wounds, pneumonia, a concussion, three broken ribs, and enough cuts and bruises to keep a football team happy for a full season.” “Jews are hard to kill.”
― Dan Simmons, Carrion Comfort

“In social movements like feminism, self-awareness, or naming one’s problems, was the first step to radical collective awareness. For this generation, it is the only step, completely detached from any kind of solidarity; while they struggle with similar, and structurally rooted, problems, there is no sense of “we.” The possibility of collective politicization through naming one’s suffering is easily subsumed within these larger structures of domination because others who struggle are seen not as fellow sufferers but as objects of scorn.”
― Jennifer M. Silva, Coming Up Short: Working-Class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty

“Risk has thus become the new center around which heated political debates revolve: “The new centre is becoming the precarious centre” (Beck”
― Jennifer M. Silva, Coming Up Short: Working-Class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty

“Saul had seen the rash of demonic-children entertainments as a symptom of deeper underlying fears and hatreds; the “me-generation’s” inability to shift into the role of responsible parenthood at the cost of losing their own interminable childhood, the transference of guilt from divorce—the child is not really a child, but an older, evil thing, capable of deserving any abuse resulting from the adult’s selfish actions—and the anger of an entire society revolting after two decades of a culture dominated by and devoted to youthful looks, youth-oriented music, juvenile movies, and the television and movie myth of the adult-child inevitably wiser, calmer, and more “with-it” than the childish adults in the house hold. So Saul had lectured that the child-fear and child-hatred becoming visible in popular shows and books had its irrational roots in common guilts, shared anxieties, and the universal angst of the age. He had warned that the national wave of abuse, neglect, and callousness toward children had its historical antecedents and that it would run its course, but that everything possible must be done to avoid and eliminate that brand of violence before it poisoned America.”
― Dan Simmons, Carrion Comfort