Clara

“To me that ineffectual little scholar, having trouble getting his magic sword in and out of the scabbard, was much more believable and sympathetic, and thus easier to write about, than would have been the standard brawny-fisted swordsman, for whom I'd felt slight empathy.”
― Clifford D. Simak, Skirmish: The Great Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak

“And suddenly for no reason, a remembrance of that three thousand years old coarse pottery bowl mended with bitumen flashed across Victoria's mind. Surely those were the things that mattered, the little everyday things, the family to be cooked for, the four walls that enclosed the home, the one or two cherished possessions. All the thousands of ordinary people on the earth, minding their own business, and tilling the earth, and making pots and bringing up families and laughing and crying, and getting up in the morning and going to bed at night. They were the people who mattered, not these Angels with wicked faces who wanted to make a new world and who didn't care whom they hurt to do it.”
― Agatha Christie

“It seemed that nice hair and the eyes of a cherub had gained him attentions that he had construed as somehow inspired by his political thoughts. In this he was mistaken, an error of the sort commonly found among millionaires who believe that they are charismatic.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, Johannes Cabal the Detective

“I often tell my friends that I write to reach people who are like me. If you find this book fun to read, or even meaningful, you are like me, at least in that particular way. I may never know who you are, but I firmly believe that you are out there.”
― Sung-Il Kim, Blood of the Old Kings