Christine

“Chekhov’s line that ‘both the strong and the weak fall victim to their own relationships with one another’ has the ring of forbidden truth. Who would dare write such a line like that today? Who would dare even think it?”
― Richard Flanagan, Question 7

“Philosophy is at its heart always a meta-activity, stepping back to think about thinking. It thinks not only about what our obligations are, but also about the concept of obligation; not only about what is just, but also about the concept of justice; not only about what it is rational to do or believe, but also about the concept of the rational. This makes it difficult for some people to find their feet with philosophy, and it makes them impatient of it. To them, I repeat Wittgenstein’s advice concerning how philosophers should greet one another. He said they should say, ‘Take your time.”
― Raimond Gaita, A Common Humanity: Thinking about Love and Truth and Justice

“It was a time of wonder and all things had the shape of miracles. And like a miracle, no evidence that it ever happened remains.”
― Richard Flanagan, Question 7

“I sat down opposite him. He looked up, straight into my eyes as he does, and smiled at me. At that moment, we were both a hundred years old and we had known each other for ever.”
― Helen Garner, Monkey Grip