Book: Storm surge

She realized that Ross got to the darkest corners of the soul and wades through deep water, and only she can lend him a hand.
Ross, you don't have to be afraid of. It's not in your nature. Not like you.
- Maybe the character changes when you age.

- <...> But most importantly - it inspired fear.
Fear, Ross? What are you afraid of?
- To lose you.
It's highly unlikely.
- I do not mean another man, although this is not good. I'm talking about the physical loss, I'm afraid to lose you as a person, as a companion, with whom I spent close to a lifetime. You understand that the time will come, will surely come a time when I will not hear your voice or you mine? This probably sounds cheesy, but for me that thought is unbearable, monstrous...

That is civilized life, it is not an attempt to cram imperfect people in an unnatural frame, invented by people equally imperfect?

The person with the most exquisite taste can change the taste if it in what does not deny.

- The man with the most exquisite taste can change the taste if it in what does not deny.
As courage? asked Ross.
- So.

Demelza suggested that sometimes, perhaps the money is too much, so we have to collect so much stuff. What could be nicer than a passion for collecting, whether it be fans, ivory or glass, and then you can afford to collect the whole collection, one precious object after another, to place it on the shelves and every time to enjoy looking at her. But sir Horace, getting up in years, gathered many major collections. How could he find pleasure still? Six wonderful things will always remain six wonderful things. Gather six thousand and cease to value them.
Is as wife, - said Ross. It's not much.

My dear, doomed my mill,
You take a look at that form!
Before you shaped boob -
The product is a fashionable reform.
As in the last century, I don't eat
Cheesecake, jelly, pie.
But for the sake of fashion you can forget
Where a waist we were created by God!

- This is your first visit to London?
You know that, Yes.
Well, if you'll allow me to say so, mA'am, we have great untapped potential. Honey, Yes, you almost haven't lived, believe me!
I lived, thank you, captain Adderley.
- You have not tasted the most exquisite pleasure.
I always thought they were for people who are tired of simple pleasures.

- We are all vulgar.
For a moment all were silent.
- In what sense?
- In the ordinary. You're not going to argue that in every man there is something so unique that puts him above others! No habits, no traditions, no family. We all share the same desires and have the same functions: old and young, lords and beggars. Only a pervert will not laugh and cry on the same. It's just common sense. Vulgar common sense.

Sometimes I think that we can influence events, no more than ants.

When they brought the dinner, Ross hardly ate anything.
- You hungry?
- Just tired. Tired of talking, tired of arguing, tired to ask questions and to ride.
- Eat something.
'No,' said Ross, ' I only want you.

Life is a gamble, and even the most careful and fast on his feet man walking on the rope of circumstances, and even the slight vibration can reset. We live, feel safe, think we amount to something in the world, and suddenly -whoosh, and we are nothing.

- I did the right thing or not, Ross? I need to know. I had to make a decision.
In passing, Ross had touched her shoulder.
- You're worth more than the whole of Westminster, he said.

You are both strong and can support me. I, too rigid and unable to cope. But Demelza Demelza... not so... not brought up in such strictness, she knows how to control yourself, she would not have been equally restrained. Demelza does not understand that restraint and all that it stands for... I think Demelza cried, and it... it... and we all cried along with her...