Henrietta Mather

“...the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“... Clara was a teenage girl like any other; the object of her passion was only an accessory to the passion itself, a passion that through its long suppression was now asserting itself with volcanic necessity.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“To me it was obvious that experimental literature was experimenting on the reader, and Hanna didn't need that and neither did I.”
― Bernhard Schlink, The Reader