“Respect yourself and others will come to respect you. That is true about all of us, but especially true about women. That is the meaning of honour.”
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Hannah Luckraft sells cardboard boxes for a living. Her family is so frustrated by her behavior they can barely stand to keep in touch with her. Each day is fueled by the promise of annihilation, the promise of a reprieve, the paradise that can only be found in a bottle. When Hannah meets Robert, a kindred spirit, the two become constant companions. Together and alone Hannah and Robert spiral through the beauty and depravity of a love affair with alcohol. <i>Paradise </i>is a spectacular novel of desire and oblivion.
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A. L. Kennedy
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“Respect yourself and others will come to respect you. That is true about all of us, but especially true about women. That is the meaning of honour.”
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“Some people feel love in their hearts, Julie. Some of us feel it all way into our souls. We're the ones who can't forget.”
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“How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.”
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“You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at al...”
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“Let me tell you about love, that silly word you believe is about whether you like somebody or whether somebody likes you or whether you can put up with somebody in order to get something or...”
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“It was an opportunity to intervene at the heart of the problem: to bring God and language to natives who were assumed to have neither; to alter their diets, their clothes, their minds; to he...”
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“He will love only once - but it will be for always.”
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