David

“If you can find a way of helping people, you'll live off the interest.”
― J.G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun

“The light grew stronger, gushing up against the dark sap-hire of the transparent night. The light grew stronger, whiter, then over it hovered a flush of rose. A flush of rose, and then yellow, pale, new-created yellow, the whole quivering and poising momentarily over the fountain on the sky’s rim. The rose hovered and quivered, burned, fused to flame, to a transient red, while the yellow urged out in great waves, thrown from the ever-increasing fountain, great waves of yellow flinging into the sky, scattering its spray over the darkness, which became bluer and bluer, paler, till soon it would itself be a radiance, which had been darkness. The sun was coming.”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Rainbow

“...and my heart tightened for the hard compulsions of the poor.”
― Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome

“Was it possible to throw his life away in order to be polite?”
― Ian McEwan, Lessons