Clara

“Sooner or later...one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.”
― Graham Greene, The Quiet American

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
― Alan Bennett, The History Boys

“There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.”
― Graham Greene, The Quiet American