"The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing pressures of life under the Greek juntaâ€”the steady drip of daily coercionâ€”with an exacting empathy. In particular, her depiction of love under tyrannyâ€”by turns hesitant, furtive and liberatingâ€”is as astute as it is moving,"

-- Peter Ho Davies

#Moving Quotes #Empathy Quotes #Political Quotes

“In order for an act to be a crime, libertarians say, someone must be harmed - there must be a victim. Anything that's peaceful, voluntary, and honest should be tolerated regardless of whether we agree with it. Part of the price of our own freedom is allowing others to be free.”
“Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad -- at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.”
“It is easy to lie with statistics; it is easier to lie without them.”
“Glow-worms on the ground are moving, As if in the torch-dance circling.”
“What I always look for in just about any band or artists I sign is their songs.”
“When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?”
“I thought of the analyst Winnicott's observation: 'It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found'.”
“Go back. Go back in time. Everyone's life is a chain of memories. In each chain there are shining links, happenings where this element of wonder...was very strong. Why don't you reach out and relive some of those memories? If you work at it, remembering the wonder can revive your ability to live life as it should be lived.”

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