Jim

“A man stood in a church and told people what was good and what was bad: they did not question what they were told, and lived their lives accordingly.  I often wonder what life would be like if we still lived like that today.”
― Alex Gerlis, The Berlin Spies

“You dirty double crossing rat”
― James Cagney

“Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Fencing Master: A Deadly Arcane Secret and a Beautiful Woman Draw a Master into the Shadowy Politics of Madrid

“One has a duty to be happy, don’t you think?” She added, inconsequentially, to Emmy, “A duty. One owes it to other people.”
― Patricia Moyes, The Sunken Sailor