Michael

“Be careful. You're making hurting a habit. Spreading it around won't lessen your pain, you know. Just the opposite.”
― Louise Penny, A Rule Against Murder

“There a few forces in politics harder to resist than a feeling that something is inevitable, for humans move as a flock, and will always rush like sheep toward the safety of a winner.”
― Robert Harris, Imperium

“Everyone thinks of himself, and he lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“It's a life's work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong. And that is something I don't want to be wrong about.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men