Despair Quote by John le Carré

“What has crawled up your butt and died? (Tabitha)”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Love, Tabitha Crum, is to be earned, not given away to just anyone like a festering case of fleas. She”

— Jessica Lawson

“...History is the key to the unity of a people. Its nostalgia pulls them together. Its gloom separates them further. Its successes make them…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“She was coming to look on men and women as fellow-survivors: well-dissemblers of their woes, who, with few signals of grief, had contained, assimilated,…

— Shirley Hazzard

“Welcome to the future, she thought, surveying all this wordage and tat. All our tragedies and triumphs, our lives and deaths, our shames and…

— Iain M. Banks

“I had lost confidence and a sense of self. Who am I? Am I a person who cowers in fear at the back of…

— Susannah Cahalan

“Have you remembrances, the glimmering arches that span the summits of the mind?”

— Khalil Gibran

“My goal is to make history come alive. My fictitious characters are woven into the tapestry of actual history.”

— C.B. Huesing

“What rivets me to history is seeing / arts of survival turned / to rituals of self-hatred. This / is colonization. Unborn sisters, /…

— Adrienne Rich

“History seemed meaningless here, or at least bewildered.”

— China Miéville

“But they lived those extraordinary lives that can never be lived again. And in the living of them, they gave me a history that…

— Utah Phillips

“If people fainted from too much thinking I’d scarcely ever be conscious,” Tabitha began at once. “I think and think all the time, and…

— Margaret Mahy