Alice

“Vienna, to me it was the tuning fork for the entire world. Saying the word Vienna was like striking a tuning fork and then listening to find what tone it called forth in the person I was talking to. It was how I tested people. If there was no response, this was not the kind of person I liked. Vienna wasn't just a city, it was a tone that either one carries forever in one's soul or one does not. It was the most beautiful thing in my life. I was poor, but I was not alone, because I had a friend.”
― Sándor Márai, Embers

“I want to leave behind me the name of a fellow who never bullied a little boy, or turned his back on a big one.”
― Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays

“It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“The "eat" part was easy. The praying and loving were harder.”
― Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins