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Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn't really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. [...] Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.

You’re a rotten driver, I protested. Either you ought to be more careful, or you oughtn’t to drive at all. I am careful. No, you’re not. Well, other people are, she said lightly. What’s that got to do with it? They’ll keep out of my way, she insisted. It takes two to make an accident.

A poca gente quiero de verdad, y de muy pocos tengo buen concepto. Cuanto más conozco el mundo, más me desagrada, y el tiempo me confirma mi creencia en la inconsistencia del carácter humano y en lo poco que se puede uno fiar de las apariencias de bondad o inteligencia". - Elizabeth

I wanted to be in love with her. I wanted to overcome my emotional and sexual fears, to marry, have children, settle down.

Perverse mankind! whose wills, created free, Charge all their woes on absolute degree; All to the dooming gods their guilt translate, And follies are miscall'd the crimes of fate.

Fraternize means to behave like a brother. Luke told me that. He said there was no corresponding word that meant to behave like a sister. Sororize, it would have to be, he said. From the Latin.

Then it was all true. I saw the skins of tigers flaming in his palace on the Grand Canal; I saw him opening a chest of rubies to ease, with their crimson-lighted depths, the gnawings of his broken heart.

evening

wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

couldn’t be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s, the white man always wins. They’re ugly, but those are the facts of life. Doesn’t make it right, said Jem stolidly. He beat his fist softly on his knee. You just can’t convict a man on evidence like that—you can’t. You couldn’t, but they could and did.

All this is pure speculation. I don't really know what men used to say. I had only their words for it.

What did you expect? he murmured. Time passes.

By now I can recognize the women at a glance...with faces that are either grimor good-humored, depending on the mood of their husbands.

agonizingly aware of the money in the vicinity and convinced it was theirs for a few words in the right key

But it is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them, and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes." "I see no occasion for that. You and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves, which perhaps will be still better, for as you are as handsome as any of them, Mr. Bingley may like you the best of the party.

But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men. There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire.

But I love thee as I love what I love most in the world and I love thee more.

A man who has suffered much and wandered much has pleasure out of his sorrows.

I hear where you're coming from, as if the voice itself were a traveler, arriving from a distant place. Which it would be, which it is.

You’ve got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We’ve sacrificed the high art.