Posts tagged Human.

From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended.

Ian McEwan, Atonement
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1 year ago on March 01, 2012 at 10:28pm

You come from the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve”, said Aslan. “And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth; Be content.

The Chronicles of Narnia - Prince Caspian, C.S Lewis
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2 years ago on July 18, 2010 at 10:24pm
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