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“Tessa distinguished absolutely between pain observed and pain shared. Pain observed is journalistic pain. It’s diplomatic pain. It’s television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set. Those who watch suffering and do nothing about it, in her book, were little better than those who inflicted it. They were the bad Samaritans.”
― The Constant Gardener
― The Constant Gardener
“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do.”
― Sing You Home
― Sing You Home
“You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.”
― Saturday
― Saturday
“This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing.”
― On Chesil Beach
― On Chesil Beach
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