Terry Simpkins

“It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted. Though God knows why we should feel it, when we look around and see who is wanted too.”
― Graham Greene, The Quiet American

“But my love had no intentions: it knew the future. All one could do was try to make the future less hard, to break the future gently when it came, and even opium had its value there.”
― Graham Greene, The Quiet American

“She was the perfect end to a crappy day, brusque, supercilious and precisely as pleasant as a boil on the sphincter.”
― William McIlvanney, Laidlaw

“that thirty years of Israel have turned the Palestinians into the new Jews of the earth?”
― John le Carré, The Little Drummer Girl