D. Quotes - Possession, Power, Life and Death, Inevitability, Consumption, Age, Hysteria

Possession

Paperweight: tPWtRHWi, atCWJLaHO, FiaSoEatHotC

• The paperweight was the room he was in, and the core was Julia’s life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal 

Knows: SKWtPHt, wtKH. SKAA

She knows where they’ve put her then, where they’re keeping her. She’s known all along

His: WaNEO, A. I, IaH.

We are not each other’s, anymore. Instead, I am his.

Luggage: AMWaT,P…LtTfAL

around my wrist a tag, purple…like the tags for airport luggage.

Power

Power: WaNIitGoO, WaISiP

We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power

Priests: PoP

priests of power

Dead: WDNAtDtRUAU

we do not allow the dead to rise up against us.

Obscenities: tISP, itWoO, AtiP

There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power.

Abject: tCDWtLwM. IaA. IF, ftFT, tTP

They can do what they like with me. I am abject. I feel, for the first time, their true power.

Above: IaAH, LD: HiS. tHAbPAt, twbM. SJGW.

I am above him, looking down; he is shrinking. There have already been purges among them, there will be more. Serena Joy goes white.

Life and Death

Dead: ‘WatD’, HS. ‘WatD,’ EJD.

• ‘YatD,’ SaIVBt

We are the dead,’ he said. ’We are the dead,’ echoed Julia dutifully.

• ’You are the dead,’ said an iron voice behind them

Hating: tDHt, twF

To die hating them, that was freedom.

Bullet: tL-HFBwEhB

The long hoped-for bullet was entering his brain.

Out: StLWGOot, atWSRtTLaoAwEE, LGF

suddenly the life would go out of them and they would sit round the table looking at one another with extinct eyes, like ghosts fading

Bathrooms: IiBaF, twC, D

incidents in bathrooms at first; there were cuttings, drownings

Dead or Elsewhere: AtPIlaDoE…FTtTIcStF, AtD, FLtIoS, iO,F,C

All the people i love are dead or elsewhere…From time to time I can see their faces, against the dark, flickering like the images of saints, in old foreign cathedrals

Possibility: WiHoHitPoMOD. WiHoHihG. aL.

What I have on him is the possibility of my own death. What I have on him is his guilt. At last

It: WYHtdBYK, IT. YHtCai, WNwB

what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before

Relief: IFaGR. IFTtH. ShDtIML

I feel a great relief. I feel thankful to her. She has died that I may live

Inevitability

Confess: NEED, aNEFtC

Nobody ever escaped detection and nobody ever failed to confess. 

Gave: SitDoaG

stepping into the dampness of a grave

Capable: NAWYbCoL…YWbH. WSSYE, atWSFYWO

Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship…You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.’

Goodbye: IKiMObO. G, IT, EatT, G

I knew it might only be once. Goodbye, I thought, even at the time, goodbye.

Consumption

Toast: ILoMSB, F, LaPoT

I lie on my single bed, flat, like a piece of toast

Old People

Surrender: FWShLAbTiCIS

few who survived had long ago been terrified into complete intellectual surrender

Hysteria

Rage: UEoR

uncontrollable exclamations of rage 

Hideous: HEoFaV…DtK, tT

hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness…desire to kill, to torture

Bloodlust: tiaB: IWtT, G, R

There is a bloodlust: I want to tear, gouge, rend

Jumpiest: YOaOtMD, tMF, tJWtG

young ones are often the most dangerous, the most fanatical, the jumpiest with their guns.

Desire: FDtTD, D

furious desire to track down, denounce

Rape, Murder: IHtSoY, HS. IWtRYatMYA

‘I hated the sight of you,’ he said. ‘I wanted to rape you and then murder you afterwards’

iWCS

• N. yaUtItHiMEtL

• It would commit suicide.’

  • ’Nonsense. You are under the impression that hatred is more exhausting than love.

Cry: ITIWC. HMHNt, BHLaM, P

I think I will cry. He must have noticed this, because he looks at me, puzzled

Proud: INPoMft…bt, ttP

I'm not proud of myself for this…But then, that's the point.

Rolling: HWRDaMC, aKW, FoG,GL, RWLaSOC

He was rolling down a mighty corridor, a kilometre wide, full of glorious, golden light, roaring with laughter and shouting out confessions

Broken: IB, ShC, tMbi. NiCU, CO, otBP, iMF

I’ve broken, something has cracked, that must be it. Noise is coming up, coming out, of the broken place, in my face.

Laughter: FAU, I, tiL.

From among us, incredibly, there is laughter. 

Feel Again: NIBtFA: S, O, N. B.

Now I'm beginning to feel again: shock, outrage, nausea. Barbarism.