One day he’ll take his mom away from here, he’s sure of that. One day he’ll stop adding and subtracting income and expenditures in his head all the time.
“There is also the simple yet terrible fact that the legal system does not provide protection against most kinds of abuse—verbal, emotional, psychological—and even worse, it does not provide context. It does not allow certain kinds of victims in.”
― In the Dream House
― In the Dream House
“A reminder, perhaps, that abusers do not need to be, and rarely are, cackling maniacs. They just need to want something, and not care how they get it.”
― In the Dream House
― In the Dream House
“You hate it when people say stupid things. You have an ego: you believe you are good at what you do. You’re neurotic and anxious and self-centered. You get impatient when people don’t understand things as quickly as you do. You’ve definitely done some dumb things because of horniness—embarrassing things. You’ve degraded yourself in front of more than one person. You”
― In the Dream House
― In the Dream House
“Mailer’s use of the adverb dykily suggests that, for him, disinterest in his dick must be a species of psychosis. Narratives about mental health and lesbians always smack of homophobia”
― In the Dream House
― In the Dream House
Mount TBR Challenge 2025
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