David

“Every unjust act, even committed for the sake of a just cause, carries its curse with it.”
― Maurice Druon

“Strange department, this. Their motto was: "The comprehension of Infinity requires infinite time." I did not argue with that, but then they derived an unexpected conclusion from it: Therefore work or not, it´s all the same."
In the interests of not increasing the entropy of the universe, they did not work.”
― Arkady Strugatsky, Понедельник начинается в субботу

“Once you laugh with a person? That person is your friend.”
― Susan Nussbaum, Good Kings Bad Kings

“Hope is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul …” But if your hope was hope for the wrong thing, it could be a sharp-beaked hawk that ravaged the soul and the heart.”
― Dean Koontz, Breathless