Stephan Harding Quotes

Stephan Arkadyevitch had gone to Petersburg to perform the most natural and essential official duty — so familiar to everyone in the government service, though incomprehensible to outsiders — that duty, but for which one could hardly be in government service, of reminding the ministry of his existence — and having, for the due performance of this rite, taken all the available cash from home, was gaily and agreeably spending his days at the races and in the summer villas.

Sometimes it's hard to see yourself.

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We’re countries that have constitutions that put humans and human rights above everything else, countries that have signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. But we don’t realize that the holocaust of today is determined by our laws, that this is the effect of the policies we’ve put in place to defend our fortresses.” She lit another cigarette. “What do I tell my little niece when she asks me, ‘Why did they die?’” she said. “I tell her it’s because they came from far away. They were on a boat that wasn’t safe. And then she asks me, ‘Why didn’t they take a plane?’ It’s hard to explain to a little girl why we didn’t let them take a plane.

I know, honey. But I've learned that if she can't accept the truth, then we have to accept that truth and work with it. It doesn't mean we give up trying. It just means we do what we can with what we've got. It's just the way love works sometimes." "Is it, though?" I persist. "I thought love was about accepting each other. I thought it was about facing hard facts together." "Are you saying that Baba doesn't really love you? Or me?" asks Stephan. That's the million-dollar question, isn't it? "And if you're unwilling to accept Baba the way she is-or Mom the way she is-do you really love them?" says Dad. My mouth drops open. "That's not fair." "I know," he says. "Love rarely is.