Lara

“It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realise what your own beliefs really are.”
― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

“Thus, neither having the clue to the other’s secret, they were respectively puzzled at what each revealed, and awaited new knowledge of each other’s character and moods without attempting to pry into each other’s history.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“They had nothing in common but the English language, and tried by its help to express what neither of them understood.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

“She thinks of how much more space a being occupies in life than it does in death; how much illusion of size is contained in gestures and movements, in breathing. Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours