T. L.

“The General was right. No one dies of hunger here - you reach out your hand and pluck a mango. That’s why there is no progress. Cold countries have more advanced civilizations because the climate forces people to work.”
― Isabel Allende, Eva Luna

“All that the people ever get out of a revolution is a change of masters.”
― Arthur Norman Field

“Secondhand books had so much life in them. They'd lived, sometimes in many homes, or maybe just one. Theyd been on airplanes, traveled to sunny beaches, or crowded into a backpack and taken high up on a mountain where the air thinned.”
― Rebecca Raisin, The Little Bookshop on the Seine

“But here Nature fulfilled her want of speech and spoke fr her. The murmur of the brook, the voice of the village folk, the songs of the boatmen, the crying of the bird and the rustle of the trees mingled and were one with the trembling of her heart. They became one vast wave of sound which beat upon her restless soul. This murmur and movement of Nature were dumb girl’s language; that speech of the dark eyes, which the long lushes shaded, was the language of the world about her.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Short Stories from Rabindranath Tagore