30 Quotes by Elizabeth Mckenzie

Thorstein Veblen would say people hate squirrels, she called up to him, “because that’s the only way to motivate expenditure on them – such as buying traps or guns. It’s the same with stirring up patriotic emotionalism, because it justifies expenditures for defense.

She had once concluded everyone on earth was a servant to the previous generation – born from the body’s factory for entertainment and use. A life could be spent like an apology – to prove you had been worth it.

That until now she was a Christmas tree that had been decorated by someone who hated Christmas.

We employed a stocky Yorkshire woman to walk me home from school past the barbershop with the unhappy mynah bird. “Kill me!” it suggested as we passed by.

And from a branch in the tall tree, a small gray squirrel released a mighty roar.

It bothered Veblen’s mother that most people were lazy and had given up original thought a long time ago, stealing stale phrases from the media like magpies.

While we’re talking about my dreams, about how I’m gloomy and combative, and about displacing those feelings onto my pillow instead of my loved ones.

He says marriage is a continuous inevitable confrontation that can be resolved only through death.

A life could be spent like an apology – to prove you had been worth it.