“Godrot opium, he thought. But he knew that his life was inexorably tied to opium—and that without it neither The Noble House nor the British Empire could exist.”
― Tai-Pan
― Tai-Pan
“The pursuit of full humanity, however, cannot be carried out in isolation or individualism, but only in fellowship and solidarity;”
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“But the dream of something unlikely has its own special name. We call it hope.”
― The Orange Girl
― The Orange Girl
“love is like the sea, sometimes calm and sometimes stormy; it’s dangerous, beautiful, death-dealing, life-giving. But never permanent, everchanging.”
― Tai-Pan
― Tai-Pan
Kareen’s 2025 Year in Books
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