What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?
Miles is. . . Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.
The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present - they are real.
Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?
A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter.
The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow.
We still have to wait. The situation will repeat, we will get tired, but as long as we don't let go of each other's hand, then one day they will recognize that we are one.
We hate so fast and we love too slow
The faults and shortcomings we see in the members of our own ward or branch are of less consequence to us than one of the smallest in ourselves.