David Campton

“Truth had a way of coming out on top—and it was just as well for everybody that it did. If there ever came a day when truth was so soundly defeated that it never emerged, but sank, instead, under the sheer volume of untruth that the world produced, then that would be a sad day for Botswana, and for the people who lived in Botswana. It would be a sad day for the whole world, that day.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine

“Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“There is a difference between a challenge and a burden. One is something you can carry on your shoulders easily enough—the other is something, a big sack, that bends you double.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine

“...this is what death does to you, it takes and takes, so that all that is left of your memories is a faint tracing of spilled ash.”
― Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies