Tender is the Flesh (Agustina Bazterrica) (z-lib.org) (Agustina Bazterrica)
- Your Highlight on Location 483-484 | Added on Sunday, January 15, 2023 5:28:32 PM
She says this with contempt, as though the world were to blame for her choices.
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Tender is the Flesh (Agustina Bazterrica) (z-lib.org) (Agustina Bazterrica)
- Your Highlight on Location 513-514 | Added on Sunday, January 15, 2023 5:37:21 PM
though he wasn’t crying, the tears were there, behind the words he couldn’t say.
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Tender is the Flesh (Agustina Bazterrica) (z-lib.org) (Agustina Bazterrica)
- Your Highlight on Location 791-794 | Added on Wednesday, January 18, 2023 4:47:02 PM
How many heads do they have to kill each month so he can pay for his father’s nursing home? How many humans do they have to slaughter for him to forget how he laid Leo down in his cot, tucked him in, sang him a lullaby, and the next day saw he had died in his sleep? How many hearts need to be stored in boxes for the pain to be transformed into something else? But the pain, he intuits, is the only thing that keeps him breathing.
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Tender is the Flesh (Agustina Bazterrica) (z-lib.org) (Agustina Bazterrica)
- Your Highlight on Location 791-795 | Added on Wednesday, January 18, 2023 4:47:07 PM
How many heads do they have to kill each month so he can pay for his father’s nursing home? How many humans do they have to slaughter for him to forget how he laid Leo down in his cot, tucked him in, sang him a lullaby, and the next day saw he had died in his sleep? How many hearts need to be stored in boxes for the pain to be transformed into something else? But the pain, he intuits, is the only thing that keeps him breathing. Without the sadness, he has nothing left.
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Tender is the Flesh (Agustina Bazterrica) (z-lib.org) (Agustina Bazterrica)
- Your Highlight on Location 824-825 | Added on Wednesday, January 18, 2023 4:53:17 PM
Because hatred gives one strength to go on; it maintains the fragile structure, it weaves the threads together so that emptiness doesn’t take over everything.
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Tender is the Flesh (Agustina Bazterrica) (z-lib.org) (Agustina Bazterrica)
- Your Highlight on Location 826-827 | Added on Wednesday, January 18, 2023 4:53:37 PM
He tried to hate God but he doesn’t believe in God. He tried to hate all of humanity for being so fragile and ephemeral but he couldn’t keep it up because hating everyone is the same as hating no one.
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Tender is the Flesh (Agustina Bazterrica) (z-lib.org) (Agustina Bazterrica)
- Your Highlight on Location 1009-1010 | Added on Thursday, January 19, 2023 12:26:31 AM
He thinks that she was never much interested in maternity, that she had her kids because it’s one of the things you’re supposed to do in life, like throwing a party on your fifteenth birthday, getting married, renovating your home and eating meat.
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Tender is the Flesh (Agustina Bazterrica) (z-lib.org) (Agustina Bazterrica)
- Your Highlight on Location 1035-1036 | Added on Thursday, January 19, 2023 10:23:02 PM
He doesn’t ask her anything. His sister’s words smell of detained humidity, of confinement, of intense cold. She keeps talking.
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Tender is the Flesh (Agustina Bazterrica) (z-lib.org) (Agustina Bazterrica)
- Your Highlight on Location 1465-1467 | Added on Saturday, January 21, 2023 5:04:38 PM
Urlet selects each word as though the wind would carry it away if he didn’t, as though his sentences could be vitrified in the air, and he could take hold of them and lock them away with a key in some piece of furniture, but not just any piece, an antique, an art nouveau piece with glass doors.
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Tender is the Flesh (Agustina Bazterrica) (z-lib.org) (Agustina Bazterrica)
- Your Highlight on Location 1505-1506 | Added on Saturday, January 21, 2023 5:15:09 PM
“After all, since the world began, we’ve been eating each other. If not symbolically, then we’ve been literally gorging on each other. The Transition has enabled us to be less hypocritical.”
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Tender is the Flesh (Agustina Bazterrica) (z-lib.org) (Agustina Bazterrica)
- Your Highlight on Location 2197-2198 | Added on Sunday, January 22, 2023 10:27:48 AM
As he drags the body of the female to the barn to slaughter it, he says to Cecilia, his voice radiant, so pure it wounds: “She had the human look of a domesticated animal.”
