Savannah

“he had once in the past been asked, 'why do you hate so-and-so so much?' and he had answered them, with his shameless impudence, ' I'll tell you. He has done me no harm. But I played him a dirty trick, and ever since I have hated him.”
― Carol Tarvis

“People become more certain they are right about something they just did if they can't undo it.”
― Carol Tarvis

“Fortitudine vincimus—“By endurance we conquer.”
― Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

“People who have been sorely tempted, battled temptation, and almost given in to it - but resisted at the eleventh hour - come to dislike, even despise those who did not succeed in the same effort. It's the people who almost decide to live in glass houses who throw the first stones.”
― Carol Tarvis