68 quotes found
“I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.”
“Social class positioning influences all aspects of everyday interaction – how to talk, if to talk and when, whom to trust, whether or not to plan or risk, what can or cannot be done, how to belong,...”
“And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.”
“Ladies sheltering behind men, men sheltering behind servants - the whole system's wrong, and she must challenge it.”
“the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982”
“Rationality is the way to lead life. So high time,let’s stop feeding our dreams and shake hands with the reality.”
“He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up around her, how she had contentedly pursued her own lone quite path-for him...”
“Roz to Amelia (the house ghost): How considerate of you, after trying to kill me, to see that I don't catch a cold.”
