tamara

“Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.”
― Lawrence Durrell, Clea

“The most tender, the most tragic of illusions is perhaps to believe that our actions can add or subtract from the total quantity of good and evil in the world.”
― Lawrence Durrell, Clea

“I hear you have come to London to be parabatai with our Lucie,” said Cecily. She looked nearly as young as Tessa, though since she wasn’t an immortal warlock, one wondered how she managed it. “I am pleased—it is high time more girls became parabatai. It has been a state monopolized by men for far too long.”
“Well, the first parabatai were male,” Will pointed out, in a manner that made Cordelia wonder if Cecily had once found him insufferable, as she found Alastair.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“Let us go to bed together and ignore the loutish reality of the world.”
― Lawrence Durrell, Clea