Carol

“I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.”
― Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope

“In tiny Denmark the system wasso ingenious that if you knew some dirt about somebody, they also knew something just as bad about you. If it wasn't hushed up, the one person's offense quickly infected the other's. A strange, practical principle that meant that no one would say anything about anyone else, not even if they were caught with their hands in the biscuit tin.”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen

“Crooked cards and straight whiskey,
Slow horses and fast women.”
― Kenneth Rexroth

“Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.”
― Richard Ford