Steve

“In common with librarians the world over, the two women were used to dealing with a disproportionate quota of odd people acting strangely.”
― José Latour

“If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begun upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of at the time.”
― Thomas de Quincey

“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“You can’t go back and you can’t catch up. Happy endings are always bittersweet.”
― Alfred Bester, The Dark Side of the Earth