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She's a Killer She's a Killer by Kirsten McDougall
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“I said nothing. I liked to see how little I could contribute in these meetings. My all-time Personal Best was three words, nothing to add, of which I had been inordinately pleased at the time.”
Kirsten McDougall, She's a Killer
“I knew that my ambivalence about the emergency annoyed her. The problem with emergencies was that the longer they went on, the more they just felt like normal life.”
Kirsten McDougall, She's a Killer
“I’m a fan of unhappy endings. They’re more honest.”
Kirsten McDougall, She's a Killer
“I was friendless not because I didn’t understand people but because I understood them too well. Most of them weren’t worth the effort.”
Kirsten McDougall, She's a Killer
“We all knew that in a few years none of it would matter anyway, but we had to pretend like it did, we had to go on.”
Kirsten McDougall, She's a Killer
“I just didn’t see the point of prepping for the end of the world. I didn’t want to die slowly eating preserved cauliflower and stewed apples.”
Kirsten McDougall, She's a Killer
“In times of crisis people look for guidance to great artists.”
Kirsten McDougall, She's a Killer
“Hope was part of the internet’s success. In truth, the news was always bad – but sailing on the current of connectivity was this sense you were a few clicks away from the very thing you didn’t know you were looking for.”
Kirsten McDougall, She's a Killer
“The internet made you feel like something might happen.”
Kirsten McDougall, She's a Killer
“That’s one thing I’d learned about kids – they only hear what you don’t want them to.”
Kirsten McDougall, She's a Killer
“Brian’s right eye started twitching with the effort of not looking at his phone.”
Kirsten McDougall, She's a Killer
“I was capable of astral travel while looking like I was entirely present.”
Kirsten McDougall, She's a Killer
“That’s why I want to study Russian literature. I want to understand what it is we’re scared of. At a deep level.”
Kirsten McDougall, She's a Killer
“I knew that there were guys who made proclamations about Russian novels because they thought it made them more attractive.”
Kirsten McDougall, She's a Killer
“In London we’d be suppressing our complaints about the queue while looking extremely displeased.”
Kirsten McDougall, She's a Killer