

“Telling us straight or through his stories, my father taught us that there was, generally, a fire at the core of things, and that change was the only constant, and that we--like everybody else--were both the most important people in the universe, and utterly without significance, depending, and that individuals mattered before their institutions, and that people were people, much the same everywhere, and when they appeared to do things that were stupid or evil, often you hadn't been told the whole story, but that sometimes people did behave badly, usually because some idea had taken hold of them and given them an excuse to regard other people as expendable (or bad), and that was part of who we were too, as a species, and it wasn't always possible to know that you were right and they were wrong , but the important thing was to keep trying to find out, and always to face the truth. Because truth mattered.”
― The Crow Road
― The Crow Road

“Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel.
That would fix a lot of people. ”
― The Bell Jar
That would fix a lot of people. ”
― The Bell Jar

“Love is a wonderful thing. It makes life worthwhile. I love being in love.”
― The Choice
― The Choice

“She let him finish her sentences for her for so long that now he starts them too.”
― Number9Dream
― Number9Dream
“A shaft of moonlight illuminated a row of sentinel silver birch in a phosphorescent glow, appearing almost ethereal in the relative surrounding gloom. Boris had stopped again, his silhouette a stark black juxtaposition against the background of illuminated branches.”
― The Elephant Tree
― The Elephant Tree
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