Killing Moon

He who is born to be hanged will never drown?

She had managed not to laugh but also to get him to agree to a rectangular luxury bed one eighty metres wide by two metres ten long. Enough for two. Too much for one.

Especially men. They take away your freedom. Or rather, they don't take it, you bloody well give it away like a wuss, as if you're programmed to. And freedom is worth more than men.

She was upfront like that, a one man woman, and always had been. Even if Markus was far from being a one woman man. Because it wasn’t about what he thought of her, but about what she thought of herself. P104

Have you ever thought about how as children we expect unconditional love from our parents, without giving anything in return? But then we grow up and things change completely. When do you think we stop believing that we can be loved unconditionally just for being who we are?’ P10

That he needs you. We need something to live for, I said to him. And sometimes something to die for.

the lonely men with their half-litres of beer as sole company and collocutor.

Suffering from dementia must have its advantages

The past is never dead. It’s not even past.

Your mother should have treated him better, he was her patron, after all. Just like the parasite that is humanity should treat this planet better.

grief.’ Lucille raised her glass in a toast. ‘You wanna know the place I love the most? Right here, Laurel Canyon. Not now, but at the end of the sixties. You should’ve

I’m quite proud of what I’ve accomplished. I think even my uncle will be when he reads about it—if he

We’re drawn – some of us, at least – towards the edge of the precipice. They say it’s because the closeness to death intensifies the feeling of being alive. But fuck it, I don’t know.