“I think she would have preferred being spared from understanding all the physical signals one hopes the world will notice and reward with caresses. It’s the body and its longing that bends the mind and teaches the eye to calculate… — Erik Valeur Copy Share Image
“Like so many champions of justice, she possessed empathy in the abstract, but sometimes fell short when confronted with the flesh-and-blood reality.” — Erik Valeur Copy Share Image
“In this way Fate outplayed the efforts of mortals-simply to amuse itself, one might think.” — Erik Valeur Copy Share Image
“While there are those who say that while God and the Devil seem to be created in the image of men, Fate in all… — Erik Valeur Copy Share Image
“He remembered the Professor’s advice to his eager employees during his first year: “With us, feelings are described through images, and in the world… — Erik Valeur Copy Share Image
“She considered compassion the highest virtue, but that night on Obstetric Ward B, it had had a twin sister whose face was invisible to… — Erik Valeur Copy Share Image
“Being a single mother without a husband was considered shameful in all” — Erik Valeur Copy Share Image
“genuine compassion makes people feel good, but it doesn’t tolerate total despair or hopelessness, let alone complicity.” — Erik Valeur Copy Share Image
“Why is it that the wounds we are afflicted with early in life don’t disappear? Whether they are caused by abuse or humiliation or… — Erik Valeur Copy Share Image
“I think she would have preferred being spared from understanding all the physical signals one hopes the world will notice and reward with caresses.… — Erik Valeur Copy Share Image
“The damage that most people suffer, through the process we refer to as childhood, is from a lack of self-esteem. It’s by far the… — Erik Valeur Copy Share Image
