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“I’m talking about how we—and I mean here the ‘we’ of people who have experienced some kind of trauma, which I think is a very large category indeed—how we manage the serious burden that we carry, how we contain it, what spent fuel pool or dry cask storage we improvise for material that is even now still leaking its lethal isotopes.”


“Homosexuals always die in Hollywood movies. Most of the time, they kill themselves.”
“One of the beautiful things about Lilith was we could be ourselves. There was such power in that.”

“‘Compassion draws on mental resources and given that our mental resources are finite, we have a finite capacity for it,’ explains Adam Waytz, a psychologist and professor at Northwestern University. And because our tendency is to direct our empathy toward those we feel closer to, ‘we might fail to properly acknowledge the suffering of others’—to be unfair to groups we consider different from ourselves, say, or unethically biased toward those we favor.”
“Anna and Tom had grown up with the notion that individuality manifested itself as a set of visual differences, immediately decodable and in constant need of updating.”
“And so, finding that, for once, I was not sorry to be alone, I said to myself: I am happy. Perfectly happy, I repeated, as my eyes roamed wide over the brilliant desolate sea and the empty contours of the land. Were they, after all, searching for something that was lacking? I hardly knew.”
“My favourite haunt if it weren’t for the prices. The last time I dined there, I asked for the bill and a pistol.”






