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“Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing.”
― House at the Corner
― House at the Corner
“Whether man or beast, the secrets you kept in the fathoms of your heart always held you to ransom.”
― Reign Of The Wolf
― Reign Of The Wolf
“And no, it wasn't shame I now felt, or guilt, but something rarer in my life and stronger than both: remorse. A feeling which is more complicated, curdled, and primeval. Whose chief characteristic is that nothing can be done about it: too much time has passed, too much damage has been done, for amends to be made.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
“Remorse is not for the elderly. When it comes to them it is not purging or uplifting, but merely degrading and wretched, like a bladder disease.”
― Mr Norris Changes Trains
― Mr Norris Changes Trains
“Humphrey will go into a black neighborhood in Milwaukee and drench the streets with tears while deploring “the enduring tragedy” that life in Nixon’s America has visited on “these beautiful little children”—and then act hurt and dismayed when a reporter who covered his Florida campaign reminds him that “In Miami you were talking just a shade to the Left of George Wallace and somewhere to the Right of Mussolini.” Hubert”
― Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
― Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
Lee’s 2025 Year in Books
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