Megan Abbott

Give Me Your Hand

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  • Habitante de librohas quoted2 years ago
    Freud wrote about it a century ago. How we rummage through the armory of the past to retrieve the weapons needed to repeat, repeat, repeat past traumas. He said it was primitive, instinctual, destructive. Like a demon inside us all.
  • Habitante de librohas quoted2 years ago
    Let’s toast female hormonal madness! Let’s raise a glass for menses! Isn’t womanhood a dark and mysterious thing? Will we ever penetrate its surface, fathom its depths, dissect its enigmas, lay bare its witchy power?
  • Habitante de librohas quoted2 years ago
    “Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?”
  • Habitante de librohas quoted2 years ago
    What is it like to die from your own heart bursting?
  • Habitante de librohas quoted2 years ago
    “last man standing is sometimes a woman.”
  • Habitante de librohas quoted2 years ago
    “You must never be fearful when what you’re doing is right.”
    Both Diane and I nod. Those words. Marie Curie.
  • Habitante de librohas quoted2 years ago
    But why, then, he asked, are women so much more ferocious in their violence?
    It has always seemed to me that the answer lies in the question.
  • Habitante de librohas quoted2 years ago
    The perversity of woman is so great as to be incredible even to its victims.
  • Habitante de librohas quoted2 years ago
    We were matched runners, and she had a will as iron-soldered as her heart.
    Her blood ran cold and merciless.
  • Habitante de librohas quoted2 years ago
    We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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