Phrodrick

“He stood by me when I was crazy and I stood by him when he was drunk; now, sir, we stand by each other always.”
Sherman on his relationship with Grant”
― Robert L. O'Connell, Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman

“We shall do our best to avoid the factual error of looking for so-called "real life" in novels. Let us not try and reconcile the fictions of facts with the facts of fiction.
... A master piece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Don Quixote

“A novel which does moral injury to a dozen imbeciles, and has bracing results upon a thousand intellects of normal vigor, can justify its existence; and probably a novel was never written by the purest-minded author for which there could not be found some moral invalid or other whom it was capable of harming.
The Profitable Reading of Fiction 1888”
― Thomas Hardy

“Creating individuality, which creates and protects others' individualities is good.”
― Zaman Ali, MORALITY An Individual Dilemma