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“I’m happily unattached. I don’t hold with marriage. It makes a slave out of a woman and a monster out of a man. What about you?”
Well, pretty will get a girl in more trouble than plain, I’ve found.”
“There’s not much to life, is there? Sometimes you just have to grab it, because you don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow.”
“Every great fortune is a fundamental wrong. I don’t give a damn about these so-called philanthropists. Anyone who gives a lot of money to the poor must have robbed them first . . . poverty is only the result of
the workers not getting proper reward for their labor.”
“I don’t know that I can do it.” “But you want to, and that’s the half of it. You know most people live and die, and they dream about a better world, but they never do anything about it. But you can.”
“We’re going to change the world!” he said, and this time at least it was dreams he was drunk on, and not beers, and so she let him carry her back to bed.
“It will happen in New York and London, eventually. History tells us that revolution is not an isolated event because it is not about overthrowing governments, it is about spreading new ideas.”
“If you have unpopular opinions, don’t expect to be popular.”
The next war would not be a war of guns and horror, he said, but a war of ideas.
“Because I don’t agree with something you say, doesn’t mean I think that you’re stupid. You’re far from that. You’re a dreamer perhaps, but the world needs dreamers to make things happen.”
“It’s only the start of it.” “No, the start of it was Adam and Eve. The end of it, that nobody knows.
“It’s easy to care about the whole world, Kitty, isn’t it? But let me tell you, it’s a lot harder to care when you have to do it one person at a time!”
She handed a few coins to the conductor, barely glanced at the ticket, stared out the window at the men and women walking up and down the street; all of them had a story, she supposed, and hers was just another one.
“To have a dream broken, first you have to touch it. It’s no bad thing to be disillusioned. It meant what you dreamed about in the first place was just that, an illusion and nothing else.”
