Day 6: He loved Big Brother

[heywilma]

For one week, recommend / share:
→ Day 1: a song
→ Day 2: a picture
→ Day 3: a book/ebook/fanfic
→ Day 4: a site
→ Day 5: a youtube clip
→ Day 6: a quote
→ Day 7: whatever tickles your fancy

This was the only thing on my LJ profile for the longest time, and it's probably still one of my favourite quotes. I just remember that passage being incredibly moving, while I was reading the book, for reasons I'm still not entirely sure of. From George Orwell's 1984:

Tragedy, he perceived, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there was still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason. His mother’s memory tore at his heart because she had died loving him, when he was too young and selfish to love her in return, and because somehow, he did not remember how, she had sacrificed herself to a conception of loyalty that was private and unalterable.