Claudia Rowe

“Men lying to get women into bed has kept the human race going for centuries!” he crowed, delighted that I hadn’t seen the punch line coming. “People are corrupt by nature—narrow, limited, racist, nationalist, arrogant. They always need to pigeonhole others, divide themselves into categories and groups. Everybody’s got to be something, they can’t just be human.”
― Claudia Rowe, The Spider and the Fly: A Writer, a Murderer and a Story of Obsession

“Aspiration falls away until it becomes possible, in the midst of decay, to fool yourself into believing everything is fine.”
― Claudia Rowe, The Spider and the Fly: A Writer, a Murderer and a Story of Obsession