Beau

“It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and powerful, could dissipate like fog.”
― Jennifer Haigh, The Condition

“You are a human being with a free will. Which puts you above the animal level. But if you live your life without feeling and compassion for your fellowman—you are as an animal—“an”
― Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

“However few people can successfully demonstrate a principle in common ethics when their deliberation is festered with emotionalism.”
― Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

“In school we only learn to recognize the words and to spell but the application of these words to real life is another thing that only life and living can give us.”
― Truman Capote, In Cold Blood