Tag: book review
Howards End was a house: they could not know that to her it had been a spirit, for which she sought a spiritual heir.
“You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?”
“It’s about what happens when gullibility and fear meet greed and power.”
“And then there was Jane.”
“He felt an uncertainty in the air, a feeling of change and of loss and of the gain of new and unfamiliar things.”
The very water that has long sustained it is erasing the island day by day, wave by wave.
The only way to know how long you are lost in the darkness is to be saved from it.
“Most men are more afraid of being thought cowards than of anything else, and a lot more afraid of being thought physical cowards than moral ones.”
Then who is my father?
“Friendship is more than skin deep.”
“The memory is a living thing – it too is in transit. But during its moment, all that is remembered joins, and lives – the old and the young, the past and the present, the living and the dead.”
