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“Free souls try to exert control so as not to die of fright.”

“Your brain scans evaluate the attentional system, affective problems, impulses, persecutory delu-sions, and the perception of realities others cant conceive of.”

“Exercising doesn't mean moving your body to support healthy biological mechanisms. Not any-more. Exercising means not killing and not steal. ing.”

“You absorb. Feast on other people's words. You swell, bulge, and, in the end, you get sick.
You hang on to each look, each suspicion, the voices of virtually everyone who calls you by your name. You wrap yourself up in them, swallow them, devour them, hungry for death.
It takes nerve.”

“But all the same, there's a descent, a deepening immersion in the wells: identity is rebellious and will only extend its journey if some substance tries to appease it. It's a ploy.”

“The terror you feel in the face of violence is almost another person, another body beside you, it's your double.”

“She’s an island of flesh and bonethat will sink later on.”

“The lightning that discharged at the crown of your head is millenarian, ancestral, formless, forceful.
A light beyond words came to you.
Head shattered on the ground, brains split and phosphorescent, hand politely at the chest, hair scorched. Then look at all of it through a kaleidoscope. A riot of light. Who knows if you'll symbolize the lightning one day.”

“Everyone lies. No one tells the truth, she thought.
The suffering hasn't ended because there's a deep wound there now, in the place that's also the source of thoughts, angst, insatiable electricity.
Maybe the wound was there before she was born.”

“The physical pain, plan the sadness de has carried since she can remember, will amount to less than the pain of her soul, and with team, she will withstand death's deprivations.”

“Your mother's absence is more painful as time passes. You need her. Her death must be a lie. She gave the tableau to you for your birthday.”

“This woman, then, represents multitudes. Her Passing is not circumstantial, nor is it irrelevant: as she reaches her conclusion, so do uncountable eyes outside their orbits: unbearable, supremely intelligent gazes snuffed out when they failed to withstand terrestrial life.”

“Sometimes, very rarely, a tiny, individual decision is enough to steer history in a different direction. But only in the rarest of cases does someone have enough of an overview to still be able, later on, to identify other potential versions, and to see logical consequences beyond the ones that became fact.”

“That's how memory works: everything seems to be gone, echoing emptiness, a deep, dark expanse, but if you feel your way around, you find gossamer-thin threads that do have something attached to them if you give them a tug.”

“In any event, we must accept that, in some rare cases, inauspicious circumstances and distinctly bad inclinations coincide to create a person who is like a loaded gun. Where later, however closely you look, it is impossible to identify any point when their life could have taken a different direction — no moment's pause, no fork in the road — that would have led, if not to virtue, then at least to less

“THE QUESTION OF WHETHER there is really such a thing as evil, in a pure, self sustaining form, is antiquated, quasi-religious, and serves no useful purpose. Everything can be explained: by childhood, por-erty; and, in particular, by the violence a person has suffered, which really does, as the Bible says, keep on begetting itself.”

“It was as if the conflagration of her bouts with Karim had cast a special light on everything, a dawn light after a life lived in twi-light. It was as if she had been born deficient and only now been gifted the missing sense.”

“In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is to make things as right as we can.”

“She leaned in close to him, pressing her nose into his clean fragrant hair and neck, letting herself enjoy it once more. There is no secret, Tom, or else there are hundreds of them, and none of them interesting enough for you. The secret is that we're a family, we're just an ordinary family, with ordinary unhappiness like yours.”

“There was darkness beneath or inside everything, and even beautiful things were irredeemable because they only acted to obscure but never to transform.”

“Really, who would care about a family like theirs? Theirs were ordinary human failings, tragedies too routine to be of note.”

“In the end it was much easier than Tom had anticipated.
He had come prepared with all sorts of pretty speeches and logical arguments and even some veiled threats if it got really difficult.
He had forgotten how easy it is to offer something to people who had nothing.”

“There were the people that kept him from sleeping, when anybody did. Not the victims themselves…..
It was usually those like Miss Dillon who harboured private suspicions but who did not act boldly, did not voice their suspicions, and who would come to learn that, if they had, they could have spared somebody's suffering, or even their whole life.”

“A REMINDER! Reasonable excuses for lateness/ missing meetings/not doing something I told you to do etc, include: Bereavement (parent only). Serious illness (life-threatening, your own). Reasonable excuses do NOT INCLUDE ordinary human failings such as hangovers, broken hearts, etc etc etc.”

“For what more could we presume to ask from death — but kindness?

“My new love, should be neither too narrow, nor too broad-if possible, it should be like the misty light of spring. It’s not even necessary for that light to fall on me, as long as it lights up that which I love. Then I can gaze upon it with a gentle compassion. Yes, soft and gentle, nothing more. For the rest of my days. That will be the third love of my life.”

“ Remembering is a strange thing. Memories bubble to the surface unbidden – we cannot pick and choose.

She’s 45? Greta is 45 years old. I assumed she was in her 20s. I’m a big fan already.

“Sometimes you must quit, even when you already have nothing. Sometimes you must erase everything and take the time to withdraw into yourself.”

“There are so many ways to hold yourself hostage. I’m still learning to love my captor.”