“Olivia Nuzzi did it all for love. The former political journalist has written a combustive portrait of America, President Trump, and the scandal with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., that upended her career.” — New York Times
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1. “You cannot outrun your life on fire.”
2. “What you think of as pain is only a shadow. Pain has a face. Allow me to show it to you.”
3. “From his mouth the bullet theoretical launched the bullet possible.”
4. “Do I look like someone who cares about what God thinks?”
5. “Demons to some, angels to others.”
6. “Others thought he was a madman; he was not quite mad the way they thought, but I loved the private ways that he was mad.”
7. “It was not about a chase but about a puzzle of logic and skill that amounted to a test of his self-mastery.”
8. “We will tear your soul apart.”
9. “He was the mouse and the architect of his maze. The giver of his pleasure and torment.”
10. “Obsolete. Irrelevant in an age when desire has become amplified but where lust can be sated electronically. We need something more than just a wooden box.”
11. “He desired. He desired desiring. He desired being desired. He desired desire itself.”
12. “The box. You opened it. We came. Now you must come with us, taste our pleasures.”
13. “No tears, please. It’s a waste of good suffering.”
14. “Like all men but more so, he was a hunter.”
15. “People often… reach out to tell me that I have appeared in their dreams.”
16. “Human dreams… such fertile ground for the seeds of torment.”
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Pinhead: 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 12, 13, 16
Nuzzi: 1, 3, 6, 7, 9, 11, 14, 15
