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that a man is merely spoiled by his vices while a woman is soiled by hers.
Not one thing in this world more dangerous than a white woman when she bored. You hear?’
In a world of his own making, any man can be God.
To be black in a sea of whites is to wish to be invisible.
But it made me feel a part of a world that otherwise I could never belong to.’
Re: reading. I get it, Frances. That’s exactly how I feel!
‘Though I think the point of reading is not to feel more a part of the world, but less. To take oneself out of it.
‘My nan always said mercy is a soothing balm, just as good to give as to receive.’
How true it is that ugly people have hope while pretty people have expectation.
‘Oh, there are many ways to be mad,’ she said. ‘Love’s the surest one.’
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. Forgive me. Ritte.
To quote Ovid: Exitus acta probat. The result will justify my deeds.
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
That there were two things I loved: all those books I read, and all the people who wrote them. Because life boils down to nothing, in spite of all the fuss, yet novels make it possible to believe it is something, after all.
