THE WHITE GARDEN by Stephanie Barron

December 6th, 2009 admin

Book Quote: “Harold is quite free of certain hypocrisies regarding our national character—that gentlemen are honourable, that allegiances are always clear. That there is a right way of living and a wrong. Harold understands that people lie; that self-deception if the most powerful technique for survival; that we are all riddled with competing loyalties that confuse and divide us…


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