Schadenfreude Quotes

“I cured you, didn't I? I told you, you'd never want another man again. And you haven't."
Erich realized that was probably as close to I love you as Kaltherzig would ever give him.”
― 19, Schadenfreude

“None of it seemed quite real, and yet nothing that had ever come before seemed as real as this.”
― 19, Schadenfreude

“I am a sculpture, he thought, and wrapped his arms around himself. He was smiling. This thought made him feel beautiful, made cherry-cordial-fireworks inside him every time he mouthed it to himself.”
― 19, Schadenfreude

“(testing me, all the time)”
― 19, Schadenfreude

“Surely there were prisoners more beautiful than he was. That had gotten him the, audition, but something else entirely was what kept him here. He dared not name that something. If he did that, it might disappear.”
― 19, Schadenfreude

“It made him wonder if gazelles felt something similar, before the lions came.”
― 19, Schadenfreude

“Then it occurred to him that perhaps this was for the doctor's pleasure, all of it, and that it would never stop.”
― 19, Schadenfreude

“They'd know all about me if I told them about you.”
― 19, Schadenfreude

“This couldn't be the world, could it? The whole world, the real world, still part of the same world?”
― 19, Schadenfreude

“reasons Kaltherzig might want his patient starved and purged empty.”
― 19, Schadenfreude

“He was helplessly reminded of what a bath must be like for a dog.”
― 19, Schadenfreude

“if he stayed at Kaltherzig's elbow, and he thought of a shark parting a school of fish”
― 19, Schadenfreude