“It is better to be pleased by one’s own distastefulness than to please another man’s tastes,” — Josiah Bancroft Copy Share Image
“She would not tell him the truth for some weeks, but she would eventually confess that she had left with him because the fear… — Josiah Bancroft Copy Share Image
“Love, as the poets so often painted it, was just bald lust wearing a pompous wig. He believed true love was more like an… — Josiah Bancroft Copy Share Image
“Senlin could easily tell which porters only became busy at his approach. The hardest workers moved slowly, deliberately, while the lazy appeared eternally fresh… — Josiah Bancroft Copy Share Image
“I’m glad your self-righteousness has given you some exercise, but you forget: we are not such a tidy, reasonable, and humane race. Our thoughts… — Josiah Bancroft Copy Share Image
“But that’s how it always is in the beginning. Learning starts with failure.” Iren” — Josiah Bancroft Copy Share Image
“I haven’t met many men who wouldn’t take advantage of a woman they shared a cage with.” Senlin waved the point away, as if… — Josiah Bancroft Copy Share Image
“Never let a rigid itinerary discourage you from an unexpected adventure.” — Josiah Bancroft Copy Share Image
“Senlin marveled at how adept the human race was at injecting a sense of routine into peculiar environments; it seemed a certainty that once… — Josiah Bancroft Copy Share Image
“Because they can keep us here forever, and I can’t stay here. Do you want to die like this? I don’t. I want to… — Josiah Bancroft Copy Share Image
“He believed true love was more like an education: it was deep and subtle and never complete. The” — Josiah Bancroft Copy Share Image
“I am upset because we have pooled our human genius into the building of an elaborate Tower and have filled it up with the… — Josiah Bancroft Copy Share Image
