Remain Silent Quotes

“Her [journalist] father always told his trainees: If one side says it's raining and the other says it's dry, it's not your job to quote both. It's your job to look out of the window and find out the truth.”
― Susie Steiner, Remain Silent

“guys who come over are Baltic Russians. Just thought it might help.”
― Susie Steiner, Remain Silent

“What’s happiness got to do with it? Young people think happiness is owed to them. What we’re talking about is duty. Our duty is that while our parents take care of us when we are young, we must take care of them when they are old. This is what it is to be human.”
― Susie Steiner, Remain Silent

“I hate positive thinking. Just a way of bullying people, making them feel the bad stuff is their fault.”
― Susie Steiner, Remain Silent

“saying, “Come on, disappearing up your own arsehole is hardly the crime of the century.”
― Susie Steiner, Remain Silent

“She has learned that awkwardness no more belongs to her than does the weather. She can observe it, like an interested bystander, rather than frantically trying to make it shift.”
― Susie Steiner, Remain Silent

“The coat hooks fell off the wall three weeks ago, and they’ve been “storing” their coats on the floor ever since. There is no prospect of anyone dealing with the coat hooks. It is beyond their skill set, and she’s too embarrassed to get a handyman in for such a piddling job. Her sexual fantasies, such as they are, generally involve men performing minor DIY while retaining their emotional equilibrium.”
― Susie Steiner, Remain Silent

“Once you’re living after halftime, it’s a gamble—when death is going to take you and whether it might be your own fault for not “eating clean.”
― Susie Steiner, Remain Silent

“Death: that shadow of a notion that you might be more than halfway through and this is all you’ve got, this is all the powder in your keg.”
― Susie Steiner, Remain Silent

“It’s not just the same old row about mental load, about who should be doing the utterly tedious bedtime routine while simultaneously preparing a nutritious dinner brimming with fresh veg, but also the deep chasm over The Anxiety of It All. Who is carrying The Anxiety of It All? Is it the person who is prone to anxiety? Or is it that person because one of you refuses to carry the anxiety and cunningly off-loads it onto the other one?”
― Susie Steiner, Remain Silent

“It is better not to know, to settle down to another box set in a state of blissful and undisruptive not knowing. Human beings cannot bear too much reality.”
― Susie Steiner, Remain Silent

“this is a Join in the Fun party. It is not a Gross Sense of Entitlement party.”
― Susie Steiner, Remain Silent

“Eurocamp sites where the plastic houses were just a smidgen too close together so she could gaze on happier couples from her Veranda of Bitterness.”
― Susie Steiner, Remain Silent