Naomi Alderman Quotes

#1. He feels excited. He feels ashamed. He wants to talk to her, but he is afraid. Maybe he imagined it all. Maybe she will call him a bad name if he asks her what happened.

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#2. One of them says, 'Why did they do it?'
And the other answers, 'Because they could.'
That is the only answer there ever is.

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#3. This is the trouble with history. You can't see what's not there. You can look at an empty space and see that something's missing, but there's no way to know what it was.

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#4. Our body is there right now. You did not have to earn a thing. It is a gift. You are a hero every time you step out of your front door to do some exercise.

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#5. The only wave that changes anything is a tsunami. You have to tear down the houses and destroy that land if you want to be sure no one will forget you.

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#6. That those who live narrow lives have only themselves to blame when they find themselves shocked.

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#7. no true knowledge is ever reached without pain.

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#8. It doesn't matter that she shouldn't, that she never would. What matters is that she could, if she wanted. The power to hurt is a kind of wealth.

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#9. The truth has always been a more complex commodity than the market can easily package and sell.

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#10. What is freedom, in the end, but that no one cares any longer to try to restrain us?

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#11. When we learn to TOLERATE boredom, we find out who we really are.

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