“You can go through the world with your elbows out and your nose in the air, and call it independence, if you like. That’s not my way…”
Book Review: Dubliners
“His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe…”
Book Review: Dracula
‘Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings…’
Book Review: Down And Out In Paris And London
‘It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs – and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety…’
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Book Review: Child of God
‘You think people was meaner then than they are now? the deputy said. The old man was looking out at the flooded town. No, he said. I don’t. I think people are the same from the day God first made one…’
Book Review: Candide
“Let us cultivate our garden…’
Book Review: Brave New World
‘Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle…’
Book Review: Born to Run
‘When it comes to luck, you make your own…’
Book Review: Bird Box
‘It’s better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it tear you in pieces…’
Book Review: Artemis Fowl
‘Trust me, I’m a genius…’
