The Usual Desire to Kill Quotes

“To them or to us?” Dad said. “What about East Germany?”
― Camilla Barnes, The Usual Desire to Kill: A Novel

“Her grandparents, born during the war, were scarred by rationing. They had turned having to “go without” into an art and they were destined to hoard all their life. They hoarded not only the present (anyone who stepped inside the larder would see that) but also the past with newspapers, photos, Christmas cards all kept, as well as more anonymous items such as old tennis balls, empty tobacco tins, and a large collection of floppy disks from the eighties.”
― Camilla Barnes, The Usual Desire to Kill: A Novel