Ecstasy
Irvine Welsh
Top 10 Best Quotes
“When two people were in love you had to leave them to it. Especially when you weren't in love and wished that you were. That could embarrass. That could hurt.”
“It was the books I started reading. It was the music I started listening to. It was the television I started watching. I found myself thinking again. I tried to stop because it was only causing pain. I couldn't. Wen all this is in your head it has to come out into your life. If it doesn't, you get crushed. I'm not going to get crushed.”
“The Victim was a chronic fuck-up. People Like her always seemed to hang out with The Poisonous Cunt. In turn, she kept their self-esteem low and made sure that they stayed in psychic immiseration. She was a curator of dead souls.”
“The trick was to consume as quickly as possible; in doing it this way there was a sense that the body could be cheated.”
“A lot of men are wankers cause they don’t mind bad sex, but for a woman bad sex is far worse than no sex at all.”
“The politics of the last twenty years in Britain are liars' politics. The problem is we are ruled by the weak and the small-minded, who are too stupid to know that they are weak and small-minded.”
“She’s so fucking beautiful it don’t bear thinking about. I could hardly keep my eyes on the fucking road. I sort of felt like I was wasting time whenever I wasn’t looking at her face.”
“No ambition but to use up the big wages on more drink and more hopeless horses.”
“As if the physical proximity can make up for the emotional distance.”
“We don’t really communicate […]. We talk all right, talk in that strange language we’ve evolved for the purposes of avoiding communication. That non-language we’ve created. Perhaps it’s a sign that civilisation is regressing. Something is anyway.”
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Book Keywords:
reflection, interactions
