Alex

“Only the trees and beasts and birds tell unmitigated truths, because these poor things have not the power to invent. In this men show their superiority to the lower creatures, and women beat even men. Neither is a profusion of ornament unbecoming for a woman, nor a profusion of untruth.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World

“Our newest recruit, and already she's as welcome as a banjo on a soundtrack”
― Mick Herron, Clown Town

“you're all crazy," Flyte said.
"we prefer the term"Alternatively sane".”
― Mick Herron, London Rules

“It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.”
― Thomas Sowell