"The Volcano Lover" Quotes
"The Volcano Lover" by Susan Sontag is a historical novel exploring the passionate and tumultuous life of Sir William Hamilton, his marriage to Emma Hamilton, and their entanglement with Admiral Nelson against the backdrop of 18th-century Naples.
fiction | 432 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The heart is its own encyclopaedia.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know.
The vow of silence is a last resort, but the most powerful weapon.
The public is a thick-skinned beast and you have to keep whacking away at its hide to let it know you're there.
Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
The hardest part of being a hero is keeping the people you love from being hurt.
A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.
There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
To be intelligent is not to be in a state of tension but to be in harmony with oneself.
