the better you look, the more you see

[pitau]

When you do evil things, you see the world as petty and selfish and cruel. And what you experience in Hell is just the final ripple effect of your original evil. You get precisely what you asked for. And I think the whole point of Hell is to show you the full extent of what you wanted.

R. F. Kuang; Katabasis

[pitau]

if you could constantly reinvent yourself, cut away the parts of you that ashamed or hurt you, then how could you ever come to really know someone else?

R. F. Kuang; Katabasis

[pitau]

if falling in love was discovery, was letting yourself be discovered the equivalent to being loved?

R. F. Kuang; Katabasis

[pitau]

Deep down she suspected being in love just was two people lying to each other, concealing their violence

R. F. Kuang; Katabasis

[pitau]

There's a special place in Hell for deans, don't you think? Upping their own salaries when the rest of us are scraping by

R. F. Kuang; Katabasis

[pitau]

Fortunately graduate school had prepared her for this, the constant managing of despair.

R. F. Kuang; Katabasis

[pitau]

Favoritism was well and fine if she was the favorite.

R. F. Kuang; Katabasis

[pitau]

Her forties, she had decided, were going to be a decade of self-indulgence.

Ira Levine; Sliver

[pitau]

You won't stick... You don't know what it is to stay in a place, and there ain't any place you'll stick.

Breece D'J Pancake; In The Dry

[pitau]

[He] was the kind who bought into a game early, and when the deal soured, he'd rather hold the hand a hundred years than fold.

Breece D'J Pancake; The Honored Dead

[pitau]

But I know they can't run away from it or drink their way out of it or die to get rid of it. It's always there

Breece D'J Pancake; A Room Forever

[pitau]

I feel way too mean to say anything.

Breece D'J Pancake; Trilobites

[pitau]

It just don't do to work your ass off at something you're not no good at.

Breece D'J Pancake; Trilobites

[pitau]

Housecats is smart too. Smarter'n a dog or a mule. Folks thinks they ain't on account of you cain't learn em nothin, but what it is is that they won't learn nothin. They too smart.

Cormac McCarthy; The Orchard Keeper

[pitau]

But not knowin a thing ain't never made it not so.

Cormac McCarthy; The Orchard Keeper

[pitau]

When them as wallers in sin thinks they's gettin by with it... that's when He strikes em in His holy wrath. He jest bides His time.

Cormac McCarthy; The Orchard Keeper

[pitau]

I think we all got good at choosing not to think about certain things.

R.F. Kuang; Babel