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“If I were an amoeba, he thought, with an infinitesimal body, I could defeat ugliness. A man isn’t tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.”

Frau Kempf scene was kinda chilling

“I’ve come here to make love, he thought, I’ve come here to take my pants off and fuck this naïve kid, this art student, this forger of Larry Rivers…”

Wild entrance from the Joker, to murder Tommy at the alley where Batman’s parents were murdered

“Tell me, tell me the dangerous things you’ve done in your life, said Padilla. The most dangerous was sleeping with you, thought Amalfitano, but he was careful not to say it.”

“What is an exotic country, essentially? asked Jordi. A poor but happy place, said Amalfitano.”

Ten strains of slurs against queer people, I wonder where this book is going.

The Whale

“Humanity recruiting innocent creatures into their vile wars is already the greatest sin. I devoted myself to my country and its military; I had the qualifications to get what I wanted.
And since society denied me that, I might as well go take it myself?”

I wouldn’t have expected Cixin Liu to write this story if I’m being quite honest. I really liked the combination of marine life and war.

“He stood there as I walked on. Never trust a man with a perfectly trimmed mustache…”

I know it’s bullshit when Charles is saying little 14 year old him beat the crap out of a 22 year old boxer.

“Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was magic.”

“So that’s what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That’s what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy.”

“I felt that even the sun belonged to my father, that I had no right to it because it was shining upon my father’s house. I was like his roses, something that belonged to him and not to me…”

“Kindergarten was mostly white air…”

1922 ass conversation

“I look at the map. It’s not a brain, clearly it’s a map; can’t she see the rivers and highways and interchanges? But I see how it could look like a brain, like if all roads were twisted neurons, pulling your emotions from one place to another, bringing the city to life. A working brain is probably a lot like a lap, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways…”

"I had this awful realization that I was awake. It hit me like a brick in the groin."

"Of course I wasn't abused. If I were, things would be so simple. I'd have a reason for being in shrinks' offices. I'd have a justification and something I could work on."

I really liked that short monologue about peeing, unironically.

IIt's so yuri im so happy