Heather Hope

“Like all religious evangelists, she realizes that there is little satisfaction in the contemplation of heaven for oneself if one cannot simultaneously contemplate the horrors of hell for others.”
― P.D. James, The Children of Men

“Tell me, in a world where wealth is power, and power is the only freedom, what would desperate men not do to be heard?” “Civil”
― Claire North, The Sudden Appearance of Hope

“Fear was a solipsist, a narcissist, blind to everything except itself.”
― Salman Rushdie, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

“Human sanity was a poor, fragile thing at best,”
― Salman Rushdie, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights