Lindsey Strachan

“Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed - while an honest man is hardly aware of his good acts, but remembers a single sin for years on end.”
― Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate

“Clarification is not to clarify things. It is to put one’s self in the clear (Sir Humphrey Appleby)”
― Jonathan Lynn & Anthony Jay, The Complete Yes Minister

“There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.”
― Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier