“She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“...how time first grounds us and then confounds us....give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
“People have a right to be the way they are.”
― Ordinary People
― Ordinary People
“And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us of time's malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others slow it down; occasionally, it seems to go missing - until the eventual point when it really does go missing, never to return.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
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