• "By and large, it was the poor who had most to lose" (47) - Stiff by Mary Roach

- talking about old Britain times when there were not a lot of cadavers for doctors to practice procedures, mainly prisoners/convicts who did small crimes were used for procedures.

- ppl. in debt were killed and debt collectors sold their bodies to doctors

• "People are also very keen on rewards. In fact, rewarding

good behaviour with something concrete such as a special treat, or with praise, often gets better results than threatening people with sanctions, regardless of whether they have high levels of psychopathic features or not." (72)

• "In other words, the other person’s pain signals

that you have achieved a goal, the person is under your control and you can use that person to fulfil your own needs" (75)

• "We should not ask whether a disorder is biological or environmental, we should seek to understand

disorder as a developmental progression of a particular hand of endowments—genetic and environmental—dealt to an individual." (98) - Psychopathy: A Very Short Introduction by Essi Viding

• “I felt the throbbing against my pyjamas and the seams of my underwear, through epidermis, dermis and hypodermis.” (35)
• “This is the first night we sleep in the same bed... We’re not close. Our bodies watch each other, keeping their distance.” (36)
• “Under the shower head I let the water run so hot it scalded my skin. I imagined I was scrubbing off the manager’s disgusting comments and rubbing out Carral’s sudden presence in my bed.” (38)

- Paradise Rot

• ”If only she knew what she’d just had her mouth on. If only she knew where it had been.” (8)

- Dead Inside by Chandler Morrison