John Carriere

“It't hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“If it's a choice between a difficult truth and a simple lie, people will take the lie every time. Even if it kills them.”
― Paul Murray