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‘I want you to leave Florence Green alone,’ he brought out. Mrs Gamart was utterly taken aback. ‘Did she ask you to come here?’ ‘Not at all. She is simply a woman, no longer young, who wants to keep a bookshop.’
“But literature is all about lying, my dear young friend! Didn’t you realize?”
― Consent: A Memoir
― Consent: A Memoir
“But, Emil, he never stops lying to me.”
― Consent: A Memoir
― Consent: A Memoir
“The war-god priest gave him a disdainful look. “This city swarms with foreigners and outsiders. We will find plenty within each district. Outsiders are the ideal bearers of the community’s sins. It will be a great catharsis for all Romans.”
― The Cleansing
― The Cleansing
“With hindsight, I realize how much courage the Canadian writer must have mustered in order to stand up alone against the complacency of an entire era. Today, time has done its work, and this clip from Apostrophes has become what’s known as a television “moment.”
― Consent: A Memoir
― Consent: A Memoir
“I now know that it comes from a deep wound within me that makes me vulnerable. But I accept that fragility, that risk, still. To fight the emptiness, I need to love.”
― A Hymn to Life: Shame has to Change Sides - THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
― A Hymn to Life: Shame has to Change Sides - THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
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