The woman I loved died because I did not love her enough - what greater sin is there than that?{Uncle Chaim and Aunt Fifke and the Angel}
You see, this happened a few months ago, but it's still going on right now, and it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.
I indulged in certain practices that our society regards as shameful. And I got sick. It wasn't the practices, I don't think, it was the feeling that the great, deadly, pointing forefinger of society...
I felt ashamed.""But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?""No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal -- of being a mortal.""But how could you help that?""Don't you think...
I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.
I won't claim I've never in my life done anything I'm ashamed of, but I haven't done anything for a good while. If not everyone would agree with the decisions I've made, that's fine. What other people...
I obscenity in the milk of my shame.
I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.
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We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
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It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
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Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...