James

“When things were going wrong, it was so easy to imagine that everyone knew, that everyone was talking about it. But nobody cared nearly as much about your life as you did.”
― Brittany Cavallaro, The Case for Jamie

“When faced with our worst nightmares, we don’t tend to think new thoughts.”
― Brittany Cavallaro, A Question of Holmes

“There is no need to outrun the lion. All that is necessary for a man to do in order to survive is to outrun his friends.”
― Michael Dobbs, The House of Cards Complete Trilogy: House of Cards, To Play the King, The Final Cut

“Since histories were first written, the aim of the writer has invariably been to ‘correct’ our view of the past, and to align it more closely with the writer’s view of the present, and the way it was reached.”
― John Darwin, Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain