💬 Quotes

"I don't think I'm better than anyone else, but I think I'm different than everyone else."

"I wanted to find a place where I could go and there would be no more pictures, no more movies, no more anything."

"It’s hard to believe that people are capable of such things, that they can be so cruel, so indifferent."

"The past is something that shouldn't be looked at. It's just a place where you've been, and it has no hold on you."

"The past is a phantom, but it has sharp teeth."

"You can’t outrun your own shadow, no matter how fast you drive."

"Everything in this world is a transaction, except for the things that kill you."

"Hope is a dangerous thing to carry when you’re already drowning."

"The water here doesn't clean anything; it just hides the stains."

"We are all just stories told by people who didn't know us well enough to get the truth right."

"La bellezza è un potere. Ma è un potere che non si può controllare, e spesso è un potere che distrugge."

"Le sorelle sono tutto. Se non avessi lei, non avrei nessuno. Ma a volte, avere qualcuno è molto peggio che essere soli."

"Ci si abitua a tutto. Anche a pulire il sangue dal pavimento di un appartamento che profuma di candeggina e segreti."

"Ayoola attira gli uomini come le fiamme attirano le falene. E, proprio come le falene, gli uomini finiscono sempre per bruciarsi."

"Non si sceglie la propria famiglia, ma si sceglie quanto in profondità ci si vuole sporcare le mani per proteggerla."

"Il sangue non è acqua, ma a volte sembra solo un ostacolo tra me e una vita normale."

"The island, much like the high-rise, serves as a controlled laboratory where the collapse of social structures reveals the underlying mechanics of surveillance and disciplinary power."

"Foucault’s concept of the Panopticon is inverted in High-Rise; instead of being watched by an external guard, the residents become self-policing subjects of their own domestic confinement."

"Golding’s 'Lord of the Flies' illustrates the transition from internalized morality to the performative violence necessitated by a society without institutional oversight."

"The transformation of the body—from schoolboys in Golding’s jungle to urban professionals in Ballard’s building—is a direct manifestation of the biopolitical shift toward primal survival."