Lee

“The sheriff shook his head.

"Dope, he said. Dope."
"They sell that shit to school kids."
"It's worse than that."
"How's that?"
"School kids buy it.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“What should I do, then? Give me a concrete example."
"First you decide that you want to help and that you need to be helped by the other person. Then you decide to be totally honest. You will not lie, you will not gloss over anything, you will not cover up anything that might prove embarrassing for you. That's all there is to it.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood