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"Neil had known she was poisoning him, but dying at her hands at least brought him close to her and made him the centre of her attention. He had closed his eyes to the murders she had carried out, and by the end had been ready to be killed by her."

—j.g. ballard, rushing to paradise

#thisi s the quote i was talking about in that post #theres. see #okay my thoughts on the book are incredibly complicated and i really do think some of it was genuinely stupid. like. just stupid #but there's something in there. there's something there completely ignoring all the critique of feminism because blah blah blah shut uppp i #its old. it's boring it's tired it doesn't look good.#but beyond that. the grooming element and the effect of that on neils character there's something there that made it work as a horror novel #rushing to paradise #jg ballard #read #quotes

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