Campbell

“I have always found that actively loving
saves one from a morbid preoccupation
with the shortcomings of society.”
― Alan Paton

“It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.”
― Ann Patchett, Bel Canto

“So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“And no, it wasn't shame I now felt, or guilt, but something rarer in my life and stronger than both: remorse. A feeling which is more complicated, curdled, and primeval. Whose chief characteristic is that nothing can be done about it: too much time has passed, too much damage has been done, for amends to be made.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending