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![What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal] by Zoë Heller](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1386922976l/13258._SY75_.jpg "What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal] by Zoë Heller")
Kate and Kendrick were those rare English bureaucrats who lived in the future not the past, something that no one in Ireland ever did.
“he had that well-heeled vibe that a lot of the people up here wore on their sleeves, earned the old-fashioned way—through an industrious ancestor.”
― Under Pressure
― Under Pressure
“though it is true all the people did not go out of the city of London, yet I may venture to say that in a manner all the horses did; for there was hardly a horse to be bought or hired in the whole city for some weeks.”
― A Journal of the Plague Year
― A Journal of the Plague Year
“The face of London was now indeed strangely altered:”
― A Journal of the Plague Year
― A Journal of the Plague Year
“here I cannot but take notice that the strange temper of the people of London at that time contributed extremely to their own destruction.”
― A Journal of the Plague Year
― A Journal of the Plague Year
“While we are threading our way through the vagaries of life, our shortage of reciprocity and solidarity may corner us into breaches of culpability. We can eschew this and kindle a dream of universalism that does not impose itself but emerges from the world's numerous cultural and topical particularities and enable us to compare, discern, and identify, allowing us to marvel at the diversity. In this way, we can embrace universal recognition, human understanding, peace of mind, and compassion with others and with ourselves. ("I only needed a light ")”
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