“She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since old Tom and the children could not know hurt or fear unless she acknowledged hurt or fear, she had practiced denying them in herself. And since, when a joyful thing happened, they looked to see whether joy was on her, it was her habit to build laughter out of inadequate materials....She seemed to know that if she swayed the family shook, and if she ever deeply wavered or despaired the family would fall.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
“Don’t bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God. The best way to destroy the bridge between the visible and invisible is by trying to explain your emotions.”
― Brida
― Brida
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy”
― Love Is a Dog from Hell
― Love Is a Dog from Hell
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