Cora

“After he got back to his apartment that evening, Arthur remembered how completely he'd thought he'd solved the problem of his own childhood once he'd claimed Lillian and enveloped her in his dream--no one idle, no one beset by solitude, everyone laughing. The problem he had not solved, or even known existed, was how quickly it passed, every joke, every embrace, every babyhood and childhood, every moment of thinking that he had things figured out for good.”
― Jane Smiley, Early Warning

“The most perilous moment for a bad government is one when it seeks to mend its ways.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the French Revolution

“Can you add a quote from yourself? That would be pointless, what sort of fool would do that?”
― R.J. Barker

“One should nevertheless not fall into the old stereotype of an organization that kept its place in Spanish society by sheer terror. Certainly the Inquisition used torture and executed some of its victims, but so did nearly all legal systems in Europe at the time, and it is possible to argue that the Spanish Inquisition was less bloodthirsty than most – as we will see, it showed a healthy scepticism about witches and put a stop to witch-persecution where it could”
― Diarmaid MacCulloch, The Reformation