No self-respecting feminist could argue with the claim that the novel is more likely to accept existing power structures than not. But there's a vast difference, surely, between Dickens saying Indians should be exterminated and a Dave Eggers writing eloquently about the NSA, but not being as outspoken on American military power abroad.

No self-respecting feminist could argue with the claim that the novel is more likely to accept existing power structures than not. But there's a vast difference, surely, between Dickens saying Indians should be exterminated and a Dave Eggers writing eloquently about the NSA, but not being as outspoken on American military power abroad.

Why do you have to be so annoying sometimes?" "Cant help it. It's the company I keep.

How to explain to the earth that it was more functional as a vegetable patch than a flower garden, just as factories were more functional than schools and boys were more functional as weapons than as humans.

So many things you promise yourself you won't get used to, and then you do.

The truths we conceal don't disappear Raheen, they appear in different forms

There’s a ghost of a dream that you don’t even try to shake free off because you’re too in love with the way she haunts you.