
“Discrediting WE Charity may have been the short-term goal of some politicians and journalists, but the long-term consequences will be a devasting loss for our children and those in the developing world. That is a tragedy.”
― What WE Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada’s Largest Children’s Charity
― What WE Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada’s Largest Children’s Charity

“But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord."
"It might to keep it open.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
"It might to keep it open.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness

“What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.”
― The Remains of the Day
― The Remains of the Day

“The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
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