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Euphoria QUOTES

Euphoria QUOTES

1 " There is something about finding the balance to one's nature - perhaps a culture that flourishes is a culture that has found a similar balance among its people. "

― Lily King , Euphoria

2 " The impulse to touch her and all the life in her was something I had to check regularly. "

― Lily King , Euphoria

3 " I felt in some ways we'd had some sort of sex, sex of the mind, sex of ideas, sex of words, hundreds and thousands of words... "

― Lily King , Euphoria

4 " Is it always that way with men, that first burst of love or sex the thing that binds you? Do you always have to harken back to those first weeks when just the way he walked across a room made you want to take off all your clothes? "

― Lily King , Euphoria

5 " You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything else when you can't understand the words. Once comprehension comes, so much else falls away. You then rely on their words, and words aren't always the most reliable thing. "

― Lily King , Euphoria

6 " Go. Go to your beautiful dances, your beautiful ceremonies. And we will bury our dead. "

― Lily King , Euphoria

7 " I asked her if she believed you could ever truly understand another culture. I told her the longer I stayed, the more asinine the attempt seemed, and that what I’d become more interested in is how we believed we could be objective in any way at all, we who each came in with our own personal definitions of kindness, strength, masculinity, femininity, God, civilisation, right and wrong. "

― Lily King , Euphoria

8 " You don’t realise how language actually interferes with communication until you don’t have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. "

― Lily King , Euphoria

9 " Sometimes you just find a culture that breaks your heart,” she said finally. "

― Lily King , Euphoria

10 " He smelled of cigarettes and whiskey, the smell of Cambridge and youth. "

― Lily King , Euphoria

11 " Surely it is more civilized to kill one man every few months, hold up his head for all to behold, say his name, and return home for a feast than to slaughter nameless millions. "

― Lily King , Euphoria

12 " It's that moment, about two months in, when you think you've finally got a handle on the place. Suddenly it feels within your grasp. It's a delusion--you've only been there eight weeks--and it's followed by the complete despair of ever understanding anything. But at that moment the place feels entirely yours. It's the briefest, purest euphoria. "

― Lily King , Euphoria

13 " Glimpses of how it really was before us are rare, if not impossible. "

― Lily King , Euphoria

14 " He is wine and bread and deep in my stomach. "

― Lily King , Euphoria

15 " Perhaps all science is merely self-investigation. "

― Lily King , Euphoria

16 " Nell and Fen had chased away my thoughts of suicide. But what had they left me with? Fierce desires, a great tide of feeling of which I could make little sense, an ache that seemed to have no name but want. I want. Intransitive. No object. It was the opposite of wanting to die. But it was scarcely more bearable. "

― Lily King , Euphoria

17 " Why are we, with all our "progress," so limited in understanding & sympathy & the ability to give each other real freedom? Why with our emphasis on the individual are we still so blinded by the urge to conform? ... I think above all else it is freedom I search for in my work, in these far-flung places, to find a group of people who give each other the room to be in whatever way they need to be. And maybe I will never find it all in one culture but maybe I find parts of it in several cultures, maybe I can piece it together like a mosaic and unveil it to the world. "

― Lily King , Euphoria

18 " We'd had some sort of sex, sex of the mind, sex of ideas, sex of words, hundreds of thousands of words. "

― Lily King , Euphoria

19 " I've always been able to see the savageness beneath the veneer of society. It's not so very far beneath the surface, no matter where you go. "

― Lily King , Euphoria

20 " It’s that moment about two months in, when you think you’ve finally got a handle on the place. Suddenly it feels within your grasp. It’s a delusion – you’ve only been there eight weeks – and it’s followed by the complete despair of ever understanding anything. But at the moment the place feels entirely yours. It’s the briefest, purest euphoria. "

― Lily King , Euphoria