"The Vegetarian" Quotes
A woman's decision to become a vegetarian has profound and unsettling consequences for herself and those around her.
fiction | 208 pages | Published in 2016
Quotes
I dream of halting the world, finding a point in space, time, and clinging to it.
Violence only breeds more violence. Hatred only breeds more hatred.
From here on out her life would be lived in the hush of her husband's consulting room.
Life lies a slow fire beneath, searing and scorching her mind without respite.
The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise.
She had the feeling that everything that surrounded her was scarred, flawed, and lacking in meaning.
In the end, all we have are simple lives and simple deaths.
Let's not give ourselves false hope, or chase after dreams that can never be fulfilled.
She had never lived. Even as a child, as far back as she could remember, she had done nothing but endure.
Maybe this is how all the doors work. Maybe that's why there are so many of them.
