Euphoria
Lily King
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything else when you can't understand the words. Once comprehension comes, so much else falls away. You then rely on their words, and words aren't always the most reliable thing.”
“You don’t realise how language actually interferes with communication until you don’t have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense.”
“I asked her if she believed you could ever truly understand another culture. I told her the longer I stayed, the more asinine the attempt seemed, and that what I’d become more interested in is how we believed we could be objective in any way at all, we who each came in with our own personal definitions of kindness, strength, masculinity, femininity, God, civilisation, right and wrong.”
“He is wine and bread and deep in my stomach.”
“Perhaps all science is merely self-investigation.”
“Nell and Fen had chased away my thoughts of suicide. But what had they left me with? Fierce desires, a great tide of feeling of which I could make little sense, an ache that seemed to have no name but want. I want. Intransitive. No object. It was the opposite of wanting to die. But it was scarcely more bearable.”
“We'd had some sort of sex, sex of the mind, sex of ideas, sex of words, hundreds of thousands of words.”
“Why are we, with all our "progress," so limited in understanding & sympathy & the ability to give each other real freedom? Why with our emphasis on the individual are we still so blinded by the urge to conform? ... I think above all else it is freedom I search for in my work, in these far-flung places, to find a group of people who give each other the room to be in whatever way they need to be. And maybe I will never find it all in one culture but maybe I find parts of it in several cultures, maybe I can piece it together like a mosaic and unveil it to the world.”
“I've always been able to see the savageness beneath the veneer of society. It's not so very far beneath the surface, no matter where you go.”
“He smelled of cigarettes and whiskey, the smell of Cambridge and youth.”
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