Alan

“I know we were all angry and bitter, but we were friends. We should have tried to make amends. Instead we all went our separate ways, we barely looked at one another after we came back to Camford, like first-years after a regrettable one-night stand.”
― H.G. Parry, The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door

“I reached out and squeezed his hand on impulse, and he smiled faintly as he squeezed it back. “Thank you,” I said. “Only if you’re sure. I mean that.” I didn’t, really, and he must have known it. The most I can say for myself is that I tried.”
― H.G. Parry, The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door

“I was used to feeling stupid—it was the first step to knowledge, I always told my students—but this was different. I had been the worst kind of scholar, the kind who accepts answers without even realising there are questions to ask.”
― H.G. Parry, The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door

“To command is to fear. A leader who never fears making a mistake is an arrogant one. Or worse: a complacent one.”
― Mark A. Latham, The Last Vigilant