"I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain.We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rainalmost out of earshot, so that only the souted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations, now for long time, and I had seen nothing…

"how open societies deal with the new world situation will determine how open they remain."   2003. február 15-e egy átlagos szombat Henry Perowne agysebész számára. Fallabdázni készül, majd meglátogatni édesanyját, végül este vendégül látni Franciaországból…

"Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over…

"It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening"  1964-ben Dél-Karolinában a 14 éves Lily Owens egy farmon él apjával. Lily életét meghatározza az az emlék, amit anyja haláláról őriz. Amikor a hozzá közel…