Status Updates From L'écho lointain de l'orage

"Don't you see, Maisie, if someone loves you he loves you for everything you have been."

"She thought: and it was a moment of illumination, a flash of light: I don’t know anything about anything yet. I must try and keep myself free and open, and try to think more, try not to drift into things."

finally i have decided to subject myself to a book that is actually good

This lady, in appearance like a newly washed Sealyham, with fluffy white hair under which fierce but faded eyes peeped out;

.. and once again the meeting became a free-for-all on brotherhood, freedom and racial equality. In the midst of this Mr Matushi and his two friends left, for the reason they always had to leave meetings early: it was after curfew time and they had no passes to be out late.

Had Brother Jack in fact said the things he was supposed to have said?
Every word, said Jack. In his view the British were rapacious imperialist exploiters of India and he insisted on his right to say so any time or any place he wanted.