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“Though in fact what I hate about the flowers is that they are, for my mother, a source of pleasure, that my mother believes in allowing herself pleasure, in indulging her various material desires. What I hate about the flowers is that they are an example of the many ways in which my mother extends her kindness also to herself.”

“Remarkable how hard it is for woman to admit they’re angry. Not annoyed or upset or irked or miffed”

“that her ceaseless trust in the world had at last been proven foolish. Finding friends in every city she moved to, marrying a man on the strength of what, who knows, everywhere manufacturing happiness, happiness, happiness.”

“I think, Laura said, the fact that woman are better at asking for what they want, that we have to be otherwise we’ll never get it, and even then, even asking, mostly we don’t, I think this is why we’re stronger than men, in general.”

“Having a baby, in any case, is never ethical. I don’t mean it’s not, just that’s the wrong scale.”

“‘The point of feminism,’ my friend said, ‘isn’t to replicate existing power structures, only with woman in control. Or it shouldn’t be.’”

“that her art is vulgar, that it is indulgent, because she is her own subject? Because she elevates herself as subject? The woman as object is less vulgar than the woman as subject. The woman as object is art and the man who objectifies her an artist. The woman as subject, well? Just a narcissistic bitch, isn’t she?”

“‘The safest way to be happy, if you think about it. If you keep it a secret, the happiness, it’s harder for someone else, to you know-‘ the tenant shrugged -‘take it from you.’”

“Anyway, we thought it said something good about us, his being at our parties, rather than something evil about him.”

“The outbreak of violence was a sign. Artemisia took a drag of her cigarette exhaled. It was a sign he was losing control. And violence was the only way he could think to reassert it.”

“Guilt polarizes the personality. It divides light against dark, good against bad. We are wonderful one day and horrible the next, all because of something we did.”

“Isidro was omnipresent: the universe revolves around him, his wishes and demands. That was how his grandfather and father had been, that was how all men were.”

“‘What plans do you have for when this war is over?’ Victor asked.
‘To find another one. There’s always war somewhere in the world.’”

“She wonders if he feels anything now, or if he shut it all down, if Marta’s death was too much for him, so he found a loophole, a way to opt out of humanity. She is stronger than he is; she feels every molecule of her loss and she endures it. She is not dilute, but amplifies. Her love for Luca is bigger, louder. Lydia is vivid with life.”

“For all her love of words, at times they’re entirely insufficient.”

“Mostly the drivers defer to the boys exaggerated egos, go along with their pretend swagger, because although no one expects the boys to open fire, they all know that the only road to genuine bravado runs through faking it first.”

“Ironically, from the earliest moments in American history, Black women like Olvera had to prove themselves free and clear of any forms of ownership (slavery and matrimony). Women’s mobility and marital status needed legal confirmation, and even their status as free individuals requested authentication.”

“She understands now that it wasn’t the body but the way he animated it that had thrilled her.”

“The others do nothing, because that’s precisely what the cartel pays them to do, to populate uniforms and perform the appearance of governance. Some of the personnel feel morally conflicted about this; others do not. None of them have a choice anyway, so their feelings are immaterial.”

“She doesn’t ask if he’s okay, because from now in that question will carry a weight of painful absurdity. Lydia tried her best not to consider the many words that will never come out of her mouth now, the sudden monster void of words she will never get to say.”

“Healthy pleasures brings satisfaction; addictive pleasure brings a craving for more.”

“We are often told to put our pleasures away as we grow older - to sit still, work hard, deny or control our feelings. Pleasures we once knew become regulated by guilt, held inside by rigidity in the body and rigidity in our thinking. What becomes rigid also becomes brittle and fragile. Because of its fragility, a rigid system needs to be strongly defended, and that defense results in a closed state.”

“‘We don’t have gods where I come from,’ said Two-flower.
‘You do, you know,’ said the Lady. ‘Everyone has gods. You just don’t think they’re gods.’”

“‘When I think I might die without seeing a hundredth of all there is to see it makes me feel,’ he paused, then added, ‘well, humble, I suppose. And very angry, of course.’”

“Some pirates achieves immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring- do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.”

“He wondered what kind of life it would be, having to keep swimming all the time to stay in exactly the same place. Pretty similar to his own, he decided.”

“Rincewind tried to force the memory out of his mind, but it was rather enjoying itself there, terrorizing the other occupants and kicking over the furniture.”

“In his somewhat defenseless state a stray thought, wandering through the dimensions in search of a mind to harbor it, slid into his brain.”

“Well, my point is, you see, that gold also has it’s sort of magical field. Sort of financial wizardry. Echo-gnomics

“Worship is not good without action. With action, it’s only useful if it steadies you, focuses your efforts, eases your mind.”