Sydney Suite

“Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“But if men do not believe in more than one life, how will they avoid despair? What just God would create some men wretched, and others happy and prosperous, if one life was all they could have?”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley

“Angela could not be the bomber, not that sweet, pretty thing. Thing? Is that how she regarded that young woman, as a thing? And what had she ever said to her except "I hear you're getting married, Angela" or "How pretty you look, Angela." Had anyone asked her about her ideas, her hopes, her plans? If I had been treated like that I'd have used dynamite, not fireworks; no, I would have just walked out and kept right on going. But Angela was different.”
― Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby