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The Shawshank Redemption is perfection.

Anne of Windy Poplars - published almost 20 years after books 1,2,3 and 5. Probably written to finally cover what Anne did with herself the three years she waited for Gilbert to finish medical training so they could get married. Half the book is letters to him. A lot of amusing anecdotes about the strange people in the town where she is head teacher at a high school. Definitely not the best of the series.

'To translate is one of the only human activities in which one is required to lie about the details to convey the truth at large.'

'I understood God's truth, that on the battlefield they wanted only fleeting madness. Madmen of rage, madmen of pain, furious madmen, but temporary ones. No continuous madmen. As soon as the fighting ends, we're to file away our rage, our pain, and our fury. Pain is tolerated, we can bring our pain home on the condition that we keep it to ourselves. But rage and fury cannot be brought back to the trench.'

'(...) I had been inhuman by obeying duty's voice. But I was now free to listen no longer, to no longer obey the voices that command us not to be human when we must.'

Going back after a long time will make you mad, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you are only different.

The oddly frozen stances of the tall man and the old woman seemed to cast a spell on Axl and Beatrice, for now they too remained as still and silent. It was almost as if, coming across a picture and stepping inside it, they had been compelled to become painted figures in their turn.