Festina Lente (Hurry in slowly)

...History it seemed could be something entirely different a splash of blood whose agony didn't fade overnight or over centuries.

My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood.

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

Recently abandoned women can be complicated.

The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime.

I was filled with angst in college, that I struggled with the question of my future, the meaning of my life - spoiled sheltered rich girl collides with great books and is devastated by her own banality.