

“It’s good to see you girls spending time together,” she says. “It’s good to have a life that passes the Bechdel test.”
― Carry On
― Carry On

“Just a middle-age man with all the privilege that unasked for gift affords. When in truth it seems, we see suffering as the province of children, mothers, wives and lovers. Broken, struck by the hand of a man’s blind ambition, brutish strength. What of the gentle-man with the soft voice…”
― More Than Love, A Husband's Tale
― More Than Love, A Husband's Tale

“My initial impression of her had been totally wrong. The impression that she was this sweet and stunningly beautiful Vietnamese girl who had survived a difficult time in her life, and was, perhaps, still vulnerable. But, now it was different. She was nothing but a paid whore. It took me a moment to analyze it. Totally against my character, but I realized, if only for a fleeting instant, I wanted to take this whore to bed, even though there would be no spice of pursuit, and it would generate no particular tension between us.”
― Treacherous Estate
― Treacherous Estate

“You can’t save anyone who wouldn’t save themselves without you. It’s the hardest lesson to learn in life, take it from me.
- p. 47, The Brothers Silver”
― The Brothers Silver
- p. 47, The Brothers Silver”
― The Brothers Silver

“Schopenhauer was right: Life has to be about disillusionment stumbling inexorably towards the totally fucked.”
― Skagboys
― Skagboys
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