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She looked as if she had been either crying or fighting; with an Irish girl you can’t tell.
I don’t really know what this means.
“If we were all responsible for the misdeeds of the governments that represent us, thought Isabel, then the moral burden would be just too great.”
― Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
― Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
“That’s a bit of philosophy right there. We all want ice cream in this life. That’s what we want. And that tells us an awful lot about human nature and the way we feel—which is what philosophy is all about, I would have thought.”
― The Novel Habits of Happiness: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (10)
― The Novel Habits of Happiness: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (10)
“It was a lot easier to be optimistic about equality when you didn’t have to confront the Neanderthals on a daily basis. When you could imagine that people were actually changing their minds because they’d stopped groping secretaries at the photocopier.”
― Splinter the Silence
― Splinter the Silence
“You have to tell her that you have forgiven what she did to you. You have that duty because we all of us have it. It comes in different forms, but it is always the same duty. We have to forgive.”
― The Careful Use of Compliments
― The Careful Use of Compliments
“This was loyalty of a sort which was rare in an age of self-indulgence. It was an old-fashioned virtue of the type which her philosophical colleagues extolled but could never themselves match.”
― The Sunday Philosophy Club
― The Sunday Philosophy Club
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