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Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

By Euripides, Translated by Anne Carson

5 stars

“You look to me, a weak old man, / a whisper of a man. / Strength left me some while back. / I tremble, I blur.”
Things in Nature Merely Grow

By Yiyun Li

4 stars

“If one is destined to live as a Sisyphus in an abyss, there is good sense in distinguishing a meaningful boulder from insignificant pebbles. A Sisyphus making a boulder out of a pebble would only become a comedy.”
The Song of Achilles

By Madeline Miller

3 stars

“Perhaps he simply assumed: a bitterness of habit, of boy after boy trained for music and medicine, and unleashed for murder.”
Dune Messiah

By Frank Herbert

3 stars

“You do not beg the sun for mercy.”
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

By Charlie Mackesy

3 stars

‘“What do you want to be when you grow up?” “Kind.” Said the boy.’
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

By Anne Tyler

5 stars

“There ought to be a separate language, she thought, for words that are truer than other words - for perfect, absolute truth. It was the purest fact of her life: she did not understand him, and she never would.”
Electra and Other Plays

By Sophocles

4 stars

“Motherhood is a strange thing. No wrong / Can make you hate the child you’ve borne…Dead, the son born of my own body…Once he left this country / He never saw me again. He only accused me / Of killing his father and sent me terrible threats…But now, today, I am free, free from fear…I can enjoy my days in peace.”
Cannery Row

By John Steinbeck

3 stars

“Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth, must have a great deal and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums…”
Of Mice and Men

By John Steinbeck

4 stars

"I seen hundreds of men come by on the road...an' every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. An' never a God damn one of 'em ever gets it. Just like heaven...Nobody ever gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It's just in their head."
One Hundred Years of Solitude

By Gabriel García Márquez

3 stars

“…because she felt that doors had been invented to stay closed and that curiosity for what was going on in the street was a matter for harlots.”
The Little Prince

By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

5 stars

“It is your own fault,” said the little prince. “I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you...” “Yes, that is so,” said the fox. “But now you are going to cry!” said the little prince. “Yes, that is so,” said the fox. ”Then it has done you no good at all!” “It has done me good,” said the fox, “because of the colour of the wheat fields.”
Eros the Bittersweet

By Anne Carson

5 stars

“Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counter-glance, between ‘I love you’ and ‘I love you too,’ the absent presence of desire comes alive. But the boundaries of time and glance and I love you are only aftershocks of the main, inevitable boundary that creates Eros: the boundary of flesh and self between you and me. And it is only, suddenly, at the moment when I would dissolve that boundary, I realise I never can.”
Dark Jelly

By Alice Tawahi

2 stars

“It was as if the air itself had been drained and left empty. It was like a light bulb which had been switched off. In reality, it wasn’t a lodge at all, it was a halfway house. But halfway to where? And was she halfway there, or halfway back?”
I Will Die In A Foreign Land

By Kalani Pickhart

4 stars

"If there is a God, I don't think he laughs. We like to think that he does - that he has a sense of humour, that he is like us...but I think he is God because he is nothing like us."
The Last Maopo: The Life and First World War Sacrifice of Wiremu Maopo

By Tania Te Rangingangana Simpson, Wiremu Tanai Kaihau Maopo

4 stars

"Wiremu had continued to write to Phoebe, but no reply to his letters ever came. He regrettably accepted that she had moved on and eventually stopped writing to her."
Coloured Television

By Danzy Senna

1 stars

"The flowers could fool you in the daytime. They could make you believe you weren't floating in outer space. But at night, you knew."
No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson&Johnson

By Gardiner Harris

3 stars

"...once the FDA had been effectively neutered and become dependent on industry for funding, there was a shift...Instead of backing into disasters, executives made death and injury integral parts of their then undisclosed plans."
The Bone People

By Keri Hulme

4 stars

"I've often thought that maybe what happens to you as a child determines everything about you. What you are and what you do, and somehow even the things that happen to you."
We Breed Lions: Confronting Canada's Troubled Hockey Culture

By Rick Westhead

4 stars

"If you leave the teenagers to themselves to decide what their culture will look like, chances are they will get it wrong. The adults need to show leadership."
The Family

By Mario Puzo

3 stars

"The Baglioni are true believers...They believe in paradise. Such a great gift. How otherwise can man bear this mortal life? Unfortunately, such a belief also gives evil men the courage to comit great crimes in the name of good and God."
Hiwa: Contemporary Māori Short Stories

By Paula Morris, Darryn Joseph

3 stars

"I saw you in every angel, I say as I begin making my way down towards her...On every wall I saw you, in every segment of every dome, in every alcove, on every altar, every font and tabernacle, in every sanctuary."

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