Gavin

“He tried to hate God but he doesn’t believe in God. He tried to hate all of humanity for being so fragile and ephemeral but he couldn’t keep it up because hating everyone is the same as hating no one.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

“People will trust a reliable criminal more readily than a shady businessman.”
― Andy Weir, Artemis

“Yeah it’s a race thing. Us Negro-Cherokee half-breeds what live up Sycamore Creek ain’t good enough to wax Bilton Stiller’s monster truck.” “Hunh.” Rice hadn’t realized the social dynamics of northwestern Turpin County were so complicated. “You don’t know what that means either, do you?” “I know what a monster truck is.” “It means people like the Stillers need to believe there’s somebody they’re better than. You also didn’t know they was messing with you at the Beer & Eat when they sent you up to my place looking for a bear hound.”
― James A. McLaughlin, Bearskin

“If you can’t be really good at anything, then the only way to be able to prove you are superior is to make someone else inferior. It is this rampaging need in humanity which has, since pre-history, driven a man to stand on the neck of his neighbor, a nation to enslave another, a race to tread on a race. But it is also what men have always done to women.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, Venus Plus X