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I hate her and I admire her and there are times when I want to be exactly like her and then I hate myself even more than I could ever hate her.
What a sad indictment of your life. To only be found because someone else is being inconvenienced. No one wondered where Kai Helve was for days.
I’m subjected to listening to a group of blatant Brexiteers in front of me moaning about the delay. ‘What did they think they were voting for?’ Millie asks softly.
Do you know how many CEOs are psychopaths? It’s a lot. Some estimates are around the twenty percent mark. It’s a role that attracts a certain type of person: someone who is driven, meticulous, unperturbed by the idea of other people’s suffering.
I’ve been in enough hotels like this to see through the veneer; it’s all an illusion, designed to make you think you’re one of the special ones. One of those touched by God’s hand – or whatever deity you believe in – or deserving of the fruits of your endeavour. Because all stupidly wealthy people believe their status is either their birth right or a direct result of their own hard work. It’s all a fallacy. There is nothing to it but luck and a strong enough stomach to claw what you want from the jaws of the person it was originally given to.
then I remember that about him. It’s like his humour radar is off, a little broken maybe, making him think some things are absolutely hilarious but not allowing him to find mirth in things that leave the rest of us in tears. When we were teenagers, Lissa said that was the moment she realised he was a psychopath.
At that point you’re just being an ostentatious twat who’s spending the money because you want people to know you have it, not because the product you’re buying is fundamentally better.
