Chapter Four
If a man wants to leave you, wave goodbye and lock the doors. You've got better things to do than chase a lost cause.
Sayfa 49
Chapter 6
All housing needs to achieve four objectives in order to be successful:
I. It needs to be socially and culturally valid.
(Here traditional housing possibly works best.)
2. It should be sufficiently economical to ensure that the greatest number can
afford it.
(In primitive and vernacular contexts most, if not all, people have houses.)
3. It should ensure the maintenance of the health of the occupants.
(In relation to climate traditional housing succeeds, in relation to sanitation
and parasites it usually fails.)
4. There should be a minimum of maintenance over the life of the building.
(Here the evidence is equivocal.)
Sayfa 129Kitabı okudu
Chapter Four
“people are going to judge you regardless of what you do, Sal. Don’t listen to what they have to say because at the end of the day, you’re the one that has to live with your choices and where they take you. No one else is going to live your life for you.”
Sayfa 57
Chapter Twenty-Four
People spend so much time wondering why the women don’t leave. Where are all the people who wonder why the men are even abusive? Isn’t that where the only blame should be placed?
Sayfa 264
Chapter Twenty-Four
“Sit, Khải, you look bad.” She directed him to a stone bench that overlooked the water. He sat, and she brushed the hair from his clammy forehead with cool, soft fingers. “You need water.”
When she tried to pull away, he wrapped his arms around her waist and held her close. “Don’t go.”
“Okay,” she said, and she urged him to rest his cheek
Sayfa 268
For about four-fifths of the time included in the 30 years of gold-standard history reviewed in this chapter, most of the world was on a paper-money standard. The only two important nations that stand as exceptions to this statement are China, in which the silver standard ruled for about two-thirds of the time and the paper-money standard for the other third, and the United States, in which the gold standard prevailed for about 90 per cent of the time.
Sayfa 74
Chapter Twenty-Four
“But for the life of me, I don’t want to run away from him, if anything the need to be close to him is all I can ever think about.”
Mera smiles and nods her head. “This life…his life, it isn’t easy, and the likelihood is, it never will be.”
“Do you think I’m crazy? For wanting this? Wanting to be with him?”
I search her cornflower blue eyes for any signs of worry over my decisions, but I get none.
“No, Sophia. I don’t think you’re crazy. You’re human.”
