“Revenge is not always sweet: once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.”

“Revenge is sweet and not fattening.”

“I'd killed him in the end, but revenge only makes things all better in the movies. In real life, once the villain is dead the trauma lives on inside the victims.”

“ONAELIA: One step to human bliss is sweet revenge.”

“If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.”

“We say that homosexuality is a perfectly natural state, a fact, a way of life, and that we enjoy our sexuality, without feelings of inferiority or guilt. We seek and find love, and approach love, as a feeling of loving mutuality.”

“We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge.”

“it's so damn sweet when Anybody—
…makes you feel
…for once
(imag
-ine) You”

“Perhaps it would be sweet to be, in turn, both victim and executioner.”

“Racism rests upon and functions as a kind of seesaw: the persecutor rises by debasing and inferiorizing his victim.”