Alice

“(“An eye for an eye,” Mac said at the squadron reunion. Until everyone was blind, Teddy wondered?)”
― Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins

“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

“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

“Best always to praise rather than criticize.”
― Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins