Sublime

“And what is love, in the end?” Alabaster said. “Except the irrational desire to put evolutionary competitiveness aside in order to ease someone else’s journey through life?”

saw what Andrew did in our family. I saw that he came in and listened and watched and understood who we were, each individual one of us. He tried to discover our need and then supply it. He took responsibility for other people and it didn’t seem to matter to him how much it cost him. And in the end, while he could never make the Ribeira family norm

Her mother, too, had possessed this dangerous faculty of tears; and it was not wonderful if the sober-minded Doctor, roused for the first time to consider his little girl as a creature possessed of individual character, should recognise, with a thrill of dismay, the appearance of the same qualities which had wearied his life out, and brought his yo

For five or ten years they worked together, growing stronger and wiser and more and more mutually attached, and then the miracle happened—one of these young women bore a child.

elle est écrivaine, naturaliste, intelligente et sensible, et quand ce jeune homme sorti de sa ferme est arrivé à l’université, elle a tout de suite compris ses extraordinaires dons intellectuels. Elle l’a soutenu, encouragé, lui a fait profiter de ses relations, et John lui a toute sa vie écrit de longues lettres qu’il adresse à Madame Ezra Carr e