Che Baldemor’s Reviews > 1984 > Status Update

The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.

If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love. When the last of the chocolate was gone, his mother had clasped the child in her arms. It was no use, it changed nothing, it did not produce more chocolate, it did not avert the child's death or her own; but it seemed natural to her to do it.

Here is what Julia believes: "Any kind of organized revolt againt the Party, was was bound to be a failure, struck her as stupid. The clever thing to do was to break the rules and stay alive all the same."

I like this: "Applied to an opponent, it is abuse; applied to someone you agree with, it is praise."

Winston Smith's job scares me.

Big Brother.