“I never will - no, I certainly never will wish for a letter again,' was Fanny's secret declaration, as she finished this. 'What do they bring but disappointment and sorrow?”
― Mansfield Park
― Mansfield Park
“...I have the strongest belief that the historical and moral sufficiency of the Palestinian cause will finally outlast and outstrip any attempts to misrepresent it.”
― The Question of Palestine
― The Question of Palestine
“And when she came on it, the child cried "I have found you wine!" Now she had found not wine - but Passion and Joy most sharp, and Anguish without end, and Death.”
― The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
― The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
“Because from here on, whether it was winter or spring or whatever season might come, I believed these gentle days would continue. And all the people I love would spend them laughing together.”
― More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
― More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
“For someone fortunate enough to be born wearing the boot, the capacity for mercy may well extend only to how hard one chooses to step on the neck. That anyone should take the shoe off entirely, walk from the site of the trampling, is unthinkable.”
― One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
― One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
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