- Wicked people never have time for reading. It’s one of the reasons for their wickedness.
- You shall love your crooked neighbour/With your crooked heart.
- As I Walked Out One Evening, W.H. Auden.
- Rivers knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may mimic deterioration. Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem of the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.
- Regeneration, Pat Barker.
- An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone’s hand.
- The History of Love, Nicole Krauss.
- I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley.
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