Althea Spriggins

“We meant well, she thought, looking up at a sky piled with cumulus clouds turning amethyst and indigo above the clearing. No one was deliberately evil. We all did the best we could. Even so, what a mess we made of everything …”
― Mary Doria Russell, Children of God

“The rose I gave you was an emblem of my
heart,' said she; 'would you take it away and
leave me here alone?'

'Would you give me your hand too, if I asked
it?'

'Have I not said enough?”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“If you do not change, you can become extinct !”
― Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese?

“anyone who asserts so often that he is telling the truth probably isn’t.”
― Mark Bowden, The Last Stone