Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

“Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but t…”

“Why had he never appreciated the miracle that he was, brain and nerve and bound…”

“I have spied for you and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger for you. Eve…”

“Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get…”