"It is interesting how keen people are for you to do something they would never dream of doing themselves, how enthusiasticall y they drive you to your own destruction."

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Source : Rachel Cusk (2015). “Outline: A Novel”, p.160, Macmillan

Rachel Cusk

#Dream Quotes #Interesting Quotes #People Quotes

“Girls often feel very powerless in their lives and their families, and they kind of mimic the male violence as a way to try and get some of that male power that they see lacking in their own lives.”
“All the material is fictional and develops its own eight and a half private, coelesced journeys, where, perhaps not unexpectedly, the females can run faster than the men and trade their freedoms by exhausting the male sexual fantasies and replacing them by some of their own.”
“Fate, they say, fate- the clay that molds the events of your life, and it was the same fate that had thrown the stone of her heart on the building of his expectations. But then wasn't it his fault that he had constructed the building of glass? Hadn't he failed to cement the bricks of his love with trust and colour them with security? There was no insurance for broken hearts, no ointment for wounded souls and there would never be one, he knew.”
“Personally, all I ever want to be wearing are jeans.”
“I watch her as she leaves. Everything about her is fluid as a river. Her messy hair, her xylophone voice, the strokes of her paintbrush. Even her camouflage army jacket hangs loose, flowing like ribbons.”

Source : Lisa Ann Sandell (2011). “A Map of the Known World”, p.217, Scholastic Inc.
“Retirement is a work in progress. I try to figure out my day, and what I know about myself is that I need structure.”
“If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.”
“Perhaps most excitingly, we are uncovering the brain basis of our behaviors - normal, abnormal and in-between. We are mapping a neurobiology of what makes us us.”

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