Emilymcmc

“Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.”
― Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution

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

“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

“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