Tag: book review
“Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I should cease looking back so much, that I should adopt a more positive outlook and try to make the best of what remains of my day…
“Tell me every single thing. And don’t leave anything out.”
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?
