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61 " What will it do to Jimmy’s state of mind if he opens his eyes and sees three of his former beloveds bending over him like the three Fates? Demanding his everlasting love, his apologies, his blood in a cat food saucer? "
― Margaret Atwood , MaddAddam (MaddAddam, #3)
62 " But hatred and viciousness are addictive. "
63 " Speculations about what the world would be like after human control of it ended had been – long ago, briefly – a queasy form of popular entertainment. There had even been online TV shows about it: computer-generated landscape pictures with deer grazing in Times Square, serves-us- "
64 " Never trust a man with new clothes. "
65 " Fallow state, the Gardeners would say. They used that diagnosis for a wide range of conditions, from depression to post-traumatic stress to being permanently stoned. The theory was that while in a Fallow state you were gathering and conserving strength, nourishing yourself through meditation, sending invisible rootlets out into the universe. "
66 " Roamin’ here, roamin’ there, roamin’ in my underwear, I got a sweetie covered in hair, She’s all pussy everywhere "
67 " still at the table, engaged no doubt in some kind of arcane flirtation, she for practise, he in pathetic earnest. Toby "
68 " Perfection exacts a price, but it’s the imperfect who pay it. "
69 " I was communicating with my inner Pilar, which was externalized in visible form, connected with the help of a brain chemistry facilitator to the wavelengths of the Universe; a universe in which – rightly understood – there are no coincidences. "
70 " He thought about hacking in and recoding the program so that when the axe came down you got the "
71 " Who is this Fuck?” says Abraham Lincoln. “Why is he talking to this Fuck? That is not the name of anyone here. "
72 " We would like to hear the story of Fuck,” says Abraham Lincoln politely. "
73 " hatred and viciousness are addictive. You can get high on them. "
74 " Matter of fact, you would," says Zeb. "Heart like shale. What you need is a good fracking. "
75 " Every day a bad-hair day? My hair was driving me crazy, but then … I died. Don "
76 " Amazing how quickly the past becomes idyllic. Ivory "
77 " Maybe acting as if she believes in such a future will help to create it, "
78 " A scar is like writing on your body. It tells about something that once happened to you, such as a cut on your skin where blood came out. What "
79 " The card-carrying furfuckers looked down their narrow green true-believer noses at Zeb and his edgy like, "