“You are good to those who are kind to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people were always kind and obedient to those cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way; they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should — so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.”
More obvious than ever is the cruelty of the people who run this world, and personally I am seeing more and more people standing up for themselves — at least by starting to believe that they deserve better.
I haven’t finished the book yet (it’s my first read through), but my hope is that Eyre maintains her belief, and does not grow older, as Helen Sharp remarks, “as yet you are but a little untaught girl.” If Eyre does become as cynical and browbeaten as Sharp expects she will, it is my hope that humanity takes the other path, and collectively we stand together and disobey wickedness.
What wisdom have you come across in books that have been applied to reality, and succeeded? Or wisdom that you hope will be?
by a-witch-in-time