More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
You celebrated the small victories, and you dreamed of the big ones to come.
“A society that has to burn witches to hold itself together is a society that has already failed, and just doesn’t know it yet.”
Society is the choice between freedom on someone else’s terms and slavery on yours.
“You never learned the secret,” said Roberta. “How to be a crazy motherfucker and get away with it. Everybody else does it. What, you didn’t think they were all sane, did you? Not a one of them. They’re all crazier than you and me put together. They just know how to fake it.
“Self-awareness paradoxically requires an awareness of the other,”
no matter what you do, people are going to expect you to be someone you’re not. But if you’re clever and lucky and work your butt off, then you get to be surrounded by people who expect you to be the person you wish you were.”
“I think I just got bored with it,” Isobel said. “Boredom is the mind’s scar tissue.”
“I think that the most basic thing of ethics is being aware of how your actions affect others, and having an awareness of what they want and how they feel. And that’s always going to depend on who you’re dealing with.”
For the first time in living memory, she was just a girl who laughed too loud in movie theaters.
but love was the most susceptible to random failure of all human enterprises.
Loneliness was a full-body sensation, an anti-exhilaration, from his core outward.
