Michael Barrell

“Usually, to be sure, man considers only the stubble field of transitoriness and overlooks the full granaries of the past, wherein he had salvaged once and for all his deeds, his joys and also his sufferings. Nothing can be undone, and nothing can be done away with. I should say having been is the surest kind of being.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Pray use both cats as sponges if it pleases you, infatuated infantryman.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Castle in the Air

“Insanity just is, a kind of natural disaster that strikes out of the blue, the kind of thing that can happen.”
― Jo Nesbø, Police

“I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone