Forceful pleasures: Subjected to the Don
He had stood in my study, fists clenched at his sides, his face pale with grief he did not yet know how to name.
I had sat with him as his uncle and told him something I believed then, and still believed now.
“The world is not cruel, Giovanni. It is indifferent. Cruelty implies intention. Indifference is simply the absence of care. The only real power available to us is to be less indifferent than the world, to choose, deliberately and without sentiment, what we want, and move toward it without allowing anything, or anyone, to alter our direction.”
He had looked at me with those golden-brown eyes, eyes he now turned on Nella, and nodded slowly.
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