Цитаты из книги Vicious

The Sharpie cut through another paragraph, line by line, the sound as slow and even as breathing. He`d marveled, once, that his parents` books were in fact self-help, simply not in the way they`d intended. He found their destruction incredibly soothing, a kind of meditation.

The school prided itself on its country-club-meets-Gothic-manor ambience, but the ornate railing that encircled Lockland, though striving to evoke both the university`s exclusive nature and its old-world aesthetic, succeeded only in being pretentious and suffocating. It reminded Victor of an elegant cage.

“Be lost. Give up. Give In. in the end It would be better to surrender before you begin. be lost. Be lost And then you will not care if you are ever found.”

“If Eli really was a hero, and Victor meant to stop him, did that make him a villain? He took a long sip of his drink, tipped his head back against the couch, and decided he could live with that.”

“He wanted to care, he wanted to care so badly, but there was this gap between what he felt and what he wanted to feel, a space where something important had been carved out.”

There are no good men in this game.

The world resists, when you break its rules.

When no one understands, that's usually a good sign that you're wrong.

Clean was clearly not skin deep when it came to killing.

“Well, when you wonder something,” said Eli, “doesn’t that mean part of you wants to believe in it? I think we want to prove things, in life, more than we want to disprove them. We want to believe.”

Victor had discovered that pain was spectacularly nuanced sensation. A large sudden quantity could cripple, of course, but it had many more practical opplications than torture.