Blame Quotes

“To find love is the great human undertaking...and it's always complicated by our compulsions and unconscious patterns, to say nothing of issues of trust and control.”
― Michelle Huneven, Blame

“Patsy eyed him dubiously; Cal was never one to invoke psychologism.”
― Michelle Huneven, Blame

“She always said that she’d joined AA in prison because she needed some proof of remorse to offer Mark Parnham. But history demonstrates that events transpire and narratives are built around them.”
― Michelle Huneven, Blame

“The reason I suggest going slow, Silver said, is not to delay sex for the sake of delaying sex. It’s so you don’t burden a new, fragile acquaintanceship with all the expectations and emotions sex stirs up. Going slow allows you to stay current with yourself, and with each other, so you can face your emotions as they arise and not in one undifferentiated swirl. So you know what you feel and what you need each step of the way.”
― Michelle Huneven, Blame

“You know who’s a superb rider? she said. Binx. Is she one of the lady athletes? The high jumper. She’d love it up here. A Valkyrie, said Cal. That’s a little gruesome, said Patsy. Valkyries haul the dead off battlefields. Both those gals look like they could do some serious hauling.”
― Michelle Huneven, Blame

“Next stop was her storage unit. They took an elevator to the fifth floor, walked down a dim, narrow hall. Prison was all people and almost no stuff, and this place was the opposite.”
― Michelle Huneven, Blame

“Why is it, she said, when you actually do the right thing for once, it doesn't feel good? In fact, it feels so awful you think you are going to die?
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You feel like you are going to die, Patsy, because some part of you is dying.some entrenched tyrant of the soul, and sweetheart, she is not going easy.”
― Michelle Huneven, Blame