Doug Williams

“He knew how intelligent men could be broken by the stupidity of their superiors, how weeks of patient work night and day could be cast aside by such a man.”
― John le Carré, Call for the Dead

“Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.”
― Jim Butcher, Grave Peril

“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I found joy in the things that made me happy.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“That’s the trouble with living things. Don’t last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And then just memories. And the memories fade and blend and smudge together . . .”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane