Jackson Parr

“Virtue is virtue, and, like suffering, it is inexplicable, irreducible, unintelligible.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

“it’s all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it’s no good at all if you don’t have a plan for tomorrow.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“One man’s feeling is not always equal to all life is. Sometimes it’s not equal to anything much at all.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

“Let me put it another way: the men, the system, the cogs of the machine that ground you down, the evil men who framed you and tortured you, have rendered you the greatest service possible. They brought forth a new man, superior to the first, and if today you recognize honor, goodness and charity, and realize the energy you will need to surmount the obstacles and become someone superior, you owe it to them.”
― Henri Charrière, Papillon