Brian Engler

“These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

“Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

“Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon