Terry Simpkins

“Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife a husband, a lover a mistress, nor a parent a child?”
― 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

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

“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