Emilymcmc

“He was allying himself to science, for what was science but the absence of prejudice backed by the presence of money? His life would be full of machinery, which was the antidote to superstition ...”
― Henry James, The Golden Bowl

“Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!”
― Hilaire Belloc, The Path to Rome

“When I'm up to something I find it very hard to realize that I probably look no different from the way I look on other occasions.”
― Iris Murdoch, Under the Net

“My first impulse is always to behave, about everything, as if I feared complications. But I don't fear them— I really like them. They're quite my element.”
― Henry James, The Golden Bowl