Carter Bratton

“أيتها الصداقة لولاك لكان المرء وحيدا وبفضلك يستطيع المرء أن يضاعف نفسه وأن يحيا في نفوس الأخرين.”
― فولتير

“It wasn’t perfect, but it would do for a few seconds, long enough to hole up and wait for the shooting to die down. Only it didn’t. Pistols, shotguns, and that clatter you never forget, the kind that tells you someone has a Kalashnikov.”
― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

“But this time I'm not to blame; I want you to believe that. I simply slipped into those violets. No, I want to be really truthful. I am a little to blame. The sky, you know, was gold, and the ground all blue, and for a moment he looked like some one in a book.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“If the Agency could become a container for something neither Anna nor Mary had known before: a family. Now, without Caroline depending on her, Anna was alone. It did not taste good. There were voices inside: I am risking everything; I could lose everything.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder