Marjorie

“Oh often have I washed and dressed And what’s to show for all my pain? Let me lie abed and rest: Ten thousand times I’ve done my best And all’s to do again. A. E. Housman
XI, Last Poems”
― Robert Galbraith, The Hallmarked Man

“there’s no going back; time and water move on relentlessly.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“As Philipose recalls this conversation of almost a decade ago, he’s humbled to think that Joppan had been right: only a few years later, the Party won the majority of the seats in Kerala and formed the first democratically elected Communist government anywhere in the world.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“We complain and complain in the villages, and then take us out and it's all we can talk about."
"Aren't people that way everywhere:" Amina said. "I mean, when they lose something?”
― Nell Freudenberger, The Newlyweds