James

“Two slightly scratched and dented leftovers from the jumble sale of life”
― Mario Giordano, Auntie Poldi and the Vineyards of Etna

“the piquant fact about Lydgate was his good birth”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch (Unabridged): Enriched edition. Victorian Provincial Lives, Marriage, Idealism, and Social Change in 19th-Century England

“Worse, it had revealed something about Britain that few wanted to acknowledge. The country told itself that, while other nations might be willing to goose-step or bend to the will of a dictator, such things were not in the British nature. But Roberts had found ordinary British men and women who didn’t just privately wish Hitler well, but were prepared to risk their lives to help him. Behind them were surely many more who would cheerfully have gone along with fascism if it had seemed the safest course.”
― Robert Hutton, Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter

“It’s simply that Uncle knows one has to make regular sacrifices to the gods of happiness by wasting time”
― Mario Giordano, Auntie Poldi and the Vineyards of Etna