When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, she said, those who are the most themselves are the victims.
When have we required anything of you? Except to survive?
What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.
We live in our tales of ourselves. . . and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls. . .
The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments, said Frex.
The master is bringing Darwin through to examine lower life-forms, Rhoda. Straighten your spine or you’ll be mistook for a mollusk.
The day is wound up and begins even before the last haunted dreams, the last of the fog, those spectral and evanescent residues, have faded away.
The cunning old cow, thought Melena. She is trying that rarest of strategies, telling the truth, and making it sound plausible.
So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.
She's sent the crows out to blind the guests coming for dinner!What?
She wondered, faintly, if it was immoral to raise children in the habit of hope. Was it not, in the end, all the harder for them to adjust to the reality of how the world worked?
She was a sour-sass soul with a rubbery face.
She reasoned that because she was beautiful she was significant, though what she signified, and to whom, was not clear to her yet.
She found her regard for Mr. Winter turning to something like suspicion—though notice how often we lower suspicion upon others to avoid putting ourselves under scrutiny. Now
Shame has a dreadful smell. So
Perhaps every accidental cluster of people has a short period of grace, in between an initial shyness and prejudice on the one hand and eventual repugnance and betrayal on the other.
No one is exempt from grief. The
Mind your way forward and find your way back,
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