Quotes from Rachel Kushner

The thing is you keep existing whether you have a plan to do so or not, until you don't exist, and then your plans are meaningless.

P 271 There's a little songbird eaten whole, bones and everything, by French aristocrats. Illegal, and, by custom, enjoyed with a cloth over the face and head, like an executioners's hood. Maybe what we lack is tradition and elegance in our relentless destruction of nature