Happiness is the same for everyone, but unhappiness is different for each person.

“It’s not that. Let’s just say I find people with a victim mentality annoying.”

There was always a degree of banality in every tragedy.

“Believing that the entire universe is conspiring against you seems like a victim mentality to me. As if you were at the center of everything. The feeling of superiority is a defect that tends to accompany a victim mentality...as if you deserved any merit for being a product of fate.”

It had once been a human, but death made everything equal.

The fakes recover the historical, artistic legacy and transmute it into a social intervention, simultaneously reaffirming and negating its meaning. There is no greater act of cultural subversion,

There was something very exciting about real danger. An exuberant reaffirmation of life.

That was love, in reality: having someone with whom to share your quirks.

Drinking by herself—or rather, getting drunk by herself—was the penultimate stage of alcoholism.