"You surely understand one thing, the need to do what every instinct of your body tells you is ordained for you. Haven't you lived your life like that? Don't we all at some time or another make a decision which we know is absolutely right, the assurance that some enterprise, some change, is imperative? And even if it fails, to resist it will be a greater failure. I suppose some people would see that as a call from God."
–– P.D. James (1920-2014), British novelist
Source: P.D. James. The Private Patient. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada (Random House Canada), 2008; p. 78-9. Character Candace Westhall to George Chandler-Powell.
via Book of Commonplace 2017-2020, p. 128
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