Kate

“She is a character in a novel who reads the other characters as characters and rewrites them as people.”
― Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm

“Once he wrote to a friend, “There are only two kinds of people in this world: Perpetual children, who are a terrible danger to civilization, and those who were born adult. When the ‘children’ take over this country and adults are in the minority, then it’s the end for this country. I have known adults who were chronologically only ten years old, and children who were seventy-seven. One of these”
― Taylor Caldwell, Ceremony of the Innocent

“It's always so attractive to be able to do good at somebody else's expense”
― Milton Friedman

“What is the point, she thinks, of loving something you are doomed to lose? Of holding on to someone who cannot hold on to you?”
― V.E. Schwab, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil