He said: 'You don't understand. We never thought that we were being used to conquer people. Not at all: we thought the opposite. We were told that we were freeing those people. That is what they said–that we were going to set those people free from their bad kings or their evil customs or some such thing. We believed it because they believed it too. It took us a long time to understand that in their eyes freedom exists wherever they rule. . Amitav Ghosh
There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.
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Cassandra Clare
Freely we serve Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall.
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John Milton
He offered her the world. She said she had her own.
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Monique Duval
You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.
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Shannon Hale
From the first day I met her, she was the only woman to me. Every day of that voyage I loved her more, and many a time since have I kneeled down in the darkness of the night watch and kissed the deck of that...
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Arthur Conan Doyle
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Nobody knows, nobody can ever know, not even in memory, because there are moments in time that are not knowable.
I had a book in my hands to while away the time and it occurred to me that in a way a landscape is not unlike a book - a compilation of pages that overlap without two ever being the same. People open the book...
Is it your implication that no good will come of this expedition?’‘ Oh it will, sir; there’s no denying that.’ Captain Chillingworth’s words emerged very slowly, as if they had been pulled up from a deep well of bitterness. ‘I am sure it will do...
How had it happened that when choosing the men and women who were to be torn from this subjugated plain, the hand of destiny had stayed so far inland, away from the busy coastlines, to alight on the people who were, of all, the most...
I could not persuade her that a place does not merely exist, that it has to be invented in one's imagination.
