Rayhana

“You don't have to be guilty of anything in order to feel guilt”
― Simon Mawer, Prague Spring

“A faithless preacher with a good manner and voice will always convert more than a limp-handed long-faced fool, no matter how Godly.”
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

“Long had he believed that a gentleman should turn to a mirror with a sense of distrust. For rather than being tools of self-discovery, mirrors tended to be tools of self-deceit. How many times had he watched as a young beauty turned thirty degrees before her mirror to ensure that she saw herself to the best advantage? (As if henceforth all the world would see her solely from that angle!)”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“We are all different, and it is a little unfair to expect every virtue in any one of us.”
― James Donovan, Strangers on a Bridge: The Case of Colonel Abel and Francis Gary Powers