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Damage is the gripping story of a man’s desperate obsession and scandalous love affair. He is a man who appears to have everything: wealth, a beautiful wife and children, and a prestigious political career in Parliament. But his life lacks passion, and his aching emptiness drives him to an... read more

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  • “Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”
  • “Might not a happy childhood be the worst possible preparation for life? Like leading a lamb to the slaughter.”
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  • I have been damaged. Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.’
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  • Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision — the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.
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  • All the laws of life and society would seem irrelevant, if each man concentrated daily on the reality of his own death.
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  • ‘All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.’ ‘Why?’ ‘Because they have no pity. They know that others can survive, as they did.’
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  • She was the split-second experience that changes everything; the car smash; the letter we shouldn’t have opened; the lump in the breast or groin; the blinding flash. On my well-ordered stage-set the lights were up, and maybe at last I was waiting in the wings.
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  • THERE IS AN internal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.
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  • Might not a happy childhood be the worst possible preparation for life? Like leading a lamb to the slaughter.
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  • Perhaps the devil stood behind me, and delivered me successfully to evil.
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  • To observe the joy of others, while in pain oneself, is to witness what looks like insanity overtaking ordinary people.
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  • I had not spoken. I had not touched. I had not possessed. But I had recognised her. And in her, had recognised myself.
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There is an internal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.

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  1. Josephine Hart (Author)

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