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„Telling a story is how we digest what happens to us,” Mr Whittier says, “It’s how we digest our lives. Our experiences.“
„Their teeth white, as if they never used teeth for anything except to smile.“
„In order to save the world, Jesus Christ suffered for about thirty-six hours on the cross. I am willing to suffer an eternity in hell for the same cause.“
„People in France have a phrase: “Spirit of the Stairway.” In French: esprit d’Escalier. It means that moment when you find the answer but it’s too late. So you’re at a party and someone insults you. You have to say something. So, under pressure, with everybody watching, you say something lame. But the moment you leave the party… As you start down the stairway, then – magic. You come up with the perfect thing you should’ve said. The perfect crippling put down. That’s the Spirit of the Stairway. The trouble is, even the French don’t have a phrase for the stupid things you actually do say under pressure. Those stupid, desperate things you actually think or do.“
„Her dress, swimsuit-tight, leotard-tight, her pantyhose run with women pedaling bicycles going nowhere at a thousand calories an hour.“
„Doctor Sarah didn’t start out by attacking and berating everybody who called her radio show,” Mona says. “She used to have a little time slot and a little audience, and she seemed to really care about helping people.”“
„These people so scared of silence. These are my neighbors. These sound-oholics. These quiet-ophobics.“
„In the big factory of perfecting human souls, the Earth was a kind of tumbler. The same as the kind people use to polish rocks. All souls come here to rub the sharp edges off each other. All of us, we’re meant to be worn smooth by conflict and pain of every kind. To be polished. There was nothing bad about this. This wasn’t suffering. It was erosion. It was just another, a basic, an important step in the refining process.“
„In journalism school, what they want you to be is a camera. A trained, objective, detached professional. Accurate, polished, and observant. They want you to believe that the new and you are always two separate things. Killers and reporters are mutually exclusive. Whatever the story, this isn’t about you.“
„Down through the ceiling comes a fire siren and people screaming that we’re supposed to ignore. The gunshots and tires squeeling, sounds wee have to pretend are okay. They don’t mean anything. It’s just television. An explosion vibrates down from the upstairs. A woman begs someone not to rape her. It’s not real. It’s just a movie. We’re the culture that cried wolf.“
„Going to spring break at Ft. Lauderdale, getting drunk and flashing your breasts isn’t an act of personal empowerment. It’s you, so fashioned and programmed by the construct of a patriarchal society that you no longer know what’s best for yourself. A damsel too dumb to know she is even in distress.“
„I lost my virginity through my ear.“
„”What matters,” Sister Vigilante says, “is, people need a monster they can believe in.” A true horrible enemy. A demon to define themselves against. Otherwise, it’s just us versus us.“
„This culling poem is a blessing. Why do you think it was created in the first place? It will save millions of people from the slow terrible death we’re headed for from disease, from famine, drought, from solar radiation, from war, from all the places we’re headed.“
„The masochist bullies the sadist into action. The most person person is actually the aggressor. Every day, just you living means the misery and death of plants and animals- and even some people. “Slaughterhouses, factory farms, sweatshops,” she says, “like it or not, that’s what your money buys.”“
„When you think about it from a native plant perspective,” Oyster says.”Johnny Apple seed was a fucking biological terrorist.“
„Some stories, she’d say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version, they sound more silly and flat. The other kind of story, it uses you up. The more you tell it, the stronger it gets. Those kind of stories only remind you how stupid you were. Are. Will always be.“
„I do hereby and forever abandon abandoning all hope. Honestly, I give up on giving up. I’m just not cut out to be some hopeless, disillusioned wretch with no aspirations for the rest of the eternity, sprawled catatonic in my own feces on a cold stone floor. In all probability the Human Genome Project will, someday, find that I carry some recessive gene for optimism, because despite all my best efforts I still can’t scrape together even a couple of days of hopelessness. Future scientists would call it Pollyanna Syndrome, and if forced to guess, I’d say that mine has been a way-long case of history chasing rainbows.“
„You are permanent, but this life is not,” Mr. Whittier would say. “You don’t expect to visit an amusement park, then stay forever.“
„Until you can ignore your circumstances, and just do as you promise,” he says, “you’ll always be controlled by the world.“
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