Cora Muncher

“A new social type was being created by the apartment building, a cool, unemotional personality impervious to the psychological pressures of high-rise life, with minimal needs for privacy, who thrived like an advanced species of machine in the neutral atmosphere. This was the sort of resident who was content to do nothing but sit in his over-priced apartment, watch television with the sound turned down, and wait for his neighbours to make a mistake.”
― J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

“Arrest is an instantaneous, shattering thrust, expulsion, somersault from one state into another.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

“I might be more kindly disposed to this ultra-secular notion that whenever bad things happen someone must be held accountable if a curious little halo of blamelessness did not seem to surround those very people who perceive themselves as bordered on every side by agents of wickedness. That is, it seems to be the same folks who are inclined to sue builders who did not perfectly protect them from the depredations of an earthquake who will be the first to claim that their son failed his math test because of attention deficit disorder, and not because he spent the night before at a video arcade instead of studying complex fractions.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

“Crystal Lil, her door propped open, sits in front of the television with a pan in her lap, a brown bag at her feet. She”
― Katherine Dunn, Geek Love