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If they are not star-crossed lovers Sophie and Adam have their lives complicated by the animosity between their families. Hate coming from the past and from unkown reasonsm unknown to Sophie and Adam, that is. This hate has also led to the terrible, u...more |
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“I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.”
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| Kudos to my colleague, Alessandro D’Avenia, for this lovely book!While most of us teachers spend our spare time complaining about our students (or our headmaster/mistress!), D’Avenia – who teaches Latin and Greek – took inspiration from them and used...more | |
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| Back to Eirie everything seems so familiar and extraordinary at the same time. My latest journey to that land of magic and fantasy was last year with Lalita and Finnian (A Thousand Glass Flowers) . Such a beautiful, gripping love story with surprisin...more | |
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“One word more. You look as if you thought it tainted you to be
loved by me. You cannot avoid it. Nay, I, if I would, cannot
cleanse you from it. But I would not, if I could. I have never
loved any woman before: my life has been too busy, my thoughts
too much absorbed with other things. Now I love, and will love.
But do not be afraid of too much expression on my part.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
loved by me. You cannot avoid it. Nay, I, if I would, cannot
cleanse you from it. But I would not, if I could. I have never
loved any woman before: my life has been too busy, my thoughts
too much absorbed with other things. Now I love, and will love.
But do not be afraid of too much expression on my part.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
― E.M. Forster
― E.M. Forster
“I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath
― Sylvia Plath
“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
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