Susana

“Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not. The same particle does not rise from the valley to the ridge. Its unity is only phenomenal. The persons who make up a nation today, next year die, and their experience with them.”
― Paul Scott, The Towers of Silence

“Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population.”
― Paul Scott, The Jewel in the Crown

“Well, life is not just a business of standing on dry land and occasionally getting your feet wet. It is merely an illusion that some of us stand on one bank and some on the opposite. So long as we stand like that we are not living at all, but dreaming. So jump, jump in, and let the shock wake us up. Even if we drown, at least for a moment or two before we die we shall be awake and alive.”
― Paul Scott, The Jewel in the Crown

“It is our determination to overcome fear and discouragement that constitutes the only effective antidote to the sense of powerlessness over unwanted feelings.”
― Gordon Livingston, Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now