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1 " But I love Sir long time, she'd said repeatedly, blubbering, but I love Sir long time.The wife got up and slapped her smartly across the face. Love? The wife gave a bark of laughter. What do you think you know about love? "
― Amanda Lee Koe , Ministry of Moral Panic
2 " The deaths—tiny ones, false ones, real ones—we undertake in the name of love are the closest that we ever come to greatness. "
3 " There are things that cut through swathes of memory, there are things you take with you that are non-essential, that drag you down, but you can't offload them because there is only one way to throw them overboard and that is for you to walk the plank. "
4 " Small people need to talk more loudly to be heard.Well I'm small aren't I, I'm not even 1.6 metres tall, but you don't see me raising my voice.Maybe you're okay with not being heard.I just want to be heard by the right people. The right person. "
5 " Alice, you must be the fulcrum of your own universe, and I feel the shame in my chest, that I can only pivot around people. "
6 " Life is difficult because in order to progress we have to come to terms with the things we do not have. "
7 " There is no such thing in the world, as I cannot live without you; you cannot live without me. The earth spins. Time passes. Rice is eaten. What is there to disprove? "
8 " Being used to something is such a poor excuse for prolonging anything, but it seems a national pastime, don't you think? We let ourselves get into the habit of the grind, we let the grind wear us down. "
― Amanda Lee Koe
9 " October, the urban anthropologist will say, tapping his foot steadily, we are sociologists, not politicians. We are academics, not charity workers. Life is a phenomenon. "
10 " A relationship means exhaustion. Entrapment. I haven’t the energy for the eventuality of it. Love is no big truth. "
11 " The truth was probably that my mother had been so defined by the existence of my father that when he died, she couldn’t see anything else before her. He’d closed his fist around her, she’d let him, and then when he died there was so much white space of possibility around her, she couldn’t breathe. "
12 " Eternity is not the crux; the only necessary knowledge is that we once possessed each other. "
13 " It's delicious. But why is Malay chili sweet?It helps the musicians write better love songs. "
14 " You're being cheap.Naw, I'm being anti-consumerist. "
15 " There was a Chinese girl I was gila in love with, Deddy Haikel says to the young nurse, as she listens to his heartbeat, assessing the damage of this second heart attack. I would have done anything to get into her pants, and it wasn't even about that. "
16 " How is it possible that we were fated only to meet, but not destined to be together? "
17 " If I, xxx, do unto xxx any manner of betrayal, may the heavens punish me via lighting striking me down dead. "
18 " I like the thought. Now tell me, have you ever pantomimed a picnic across a swimming pool floor? "
19 " Know what you need to sing well?What?Dead knots in your heart. "
20 " Pride is not difficult to swallow when you weigh the odds. I've always been level-headed. "
