passions of soul

“Mrs. Michel reminds me of a little hedgehog.  She’s prickly on the outside, a real fortress, but I feel on the inside she’s as refined as that falsely lethargic, ferociously private, and amazingly elegant creature.”

“I used to think that my life was a tragedy, but now I realize, it's a fucking comedy.”

“If I had all this I would be kinder.”

“I want adults who can't raise kids not to have any.“

“What is the cost of lies? It's not that we will mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies then we no longer recognize the truth at all.” 

“Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid.” 

“The truth doesn’t care about our needs or wants. It doesn’t care about our governments, our ideologies, our religions. It will lie in wait for all time. And this, at last, is the gift of Chernobyl. Where I once would fear the cost of truth, now I only ask… What is the cost of lies?”

“You freaked me out, I don’t wanna like anyone. So you’ve been just totally fucking inconvenient. I don’t know how long there is and I can’t, I wasn’t prepared for you, for wanting something…”

“They say in heaven love comes first. We’ll make heaven a place on earth.”

“The house became a wife factory that we never came out of.” 

“We're all obscene. Everyone's obscene. That's the whole fucking point. We see it and we love each other anyway.”