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“Did you know that darkness has a taste, Grandma?”
“Hurt? He'll never be hurthe's made to other people.”
“Hurt? He'll never be hurt–he's made to other people.”
“A rat is neither good nor evil. It just does what a rat is suppose to do. From Phantom”
“Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.”
“And whats your unhappiness due to, Harry?The words came out before he had time to think. Loving someone who loves me.”
“Harry doesn't like people, you see." "I do like people," Harry said. "I just don't like being with them. Particularly when there's a lot of them at the same time.”
“With regard to power, women dont have the vanity men have. They dont need to make power visible, they only want the power to give them the other things they want. Security. Food. Enjoyment. Revenge...”
“Perhaps that was a thing about attractive women: A rejection demanded their respect, made them trust you more.”
“No one can leave someone they have good sex with. They can try, but they always go back. Were simple souls like that, arent we?”
“They had studied law, information technology and art history as part of their beauty treatment, they had let Norwegian taxpayers finance years at university just so that they could end up as overqu...”
“Sick is a relative concept. Were all sick. The question is, what degree of functionality do we have with respect to the rules society sets for desirable behavior? No actions are in themselves sympt...”
“You are Bellman, arent you? The genius who sent the sauna ape after me? Harry nodded toward the Finn.”
“Incidentally, I really agree with those who say that the capacity to forgive says something about the essential quality of a person. I'm the lowest grade.''I didn't mean to criticize you.''I promis...”
“...he went into the sitting room, put on a Duke Ellington record he had bought after seeing Gene Hackman sitting on the overnight bus in The Conversation to the sound of some fragile piano notes th...”
“Just imagine walking away from something youve started. Something you really believed would be good. I dont think i could ever do that.”
“Wilhelms smile reminded Harry of his fathers sad, resigned smile, the smile of a man looking backwards because thats where the things that made him smile were.”
“no one is as they seem, and most of life, apart from honest betrayal, is lies and deceit. And the day we discover we are no different is the day we no longer want to live.”
“Can you feel it? The vibration? Its the energy from everyone around us. Its in the air. If youre dying and you think no one can save you, just go out and stretch your arms into the air and absorb s...”
“Smokings banned in my house. Cigarettes harm your body, he said, knocking back half of the bottle of beer.”
“What do we mean by crazy? What do we mean by mad? At what point is a person just different and at what point can we call it a disease and say that they are not responsible for their actions? Or are...”
