3 Quotes by Camille Bordas

So the problem with any dictatorship,” I said, following Simone’s argument, “is never really the dictator himself but the people who agree with him.” “Exactly,” Simone said. “There could potentially be a good dictatorship – I don’t see why the public could only be sheep for horrible leaders – but the problem is that good people never want to be dictators.” “That’s a bummer,” I said.

Life’s not supposed to be exciting,” Delphine said. “Only certain things are, like a good soccer game, or when you fall in love and stuff. Other than that, the way life works is it gets you used to absolutely everything too fast, so that it becomes harder and harder to really enjoy anything other than maybe the repetitiveness itself, if you’re one of those weird people, and that’s that.

Once we were all gathered, my mother said, “The father won’t be coming home tonight,” and this time it was because he was dead.