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“I don’t understand why you haven’t tried it yet,” Julian said carelessly. He glanced at Paul’s mouth, so fleetingly that he might have imagined it. “I wouldn’t stop you, if that’s what you’re worried about. You could do anything to me and I’d let you.”
[…]
“It feels like it would be disrespectful.”
“I don’t need you to treat me respectfully. I’m not made of glass.”

“If I have to deal with one more person today, I’ll fucking kill myself.”
[…]
he said, very quietly, “I can leave.”
“Don’t be dumb,” said Julian, “you don’t count.”

“Arendt is mandatory,” said Julian.
[…]
She gets at why behavioral norms can’t function as a conscience—the purpose of social norms is to norm, not to attain moral perfection”