Sandy

“Mr. Bunter was professionally accustomed to judge human beings by their behavior, not in great crises, but in the minor adjustments of daily life.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Lord Peter Wimsey Collection 3: Murder Must Advertise / The Nine Tailors / Gaudy Night / Busman's Honeymoon

“She had little sympathy for the student loan companies that had lent vast sums to students with little hope of repayment, then whined when the students fled into space rather than letting their lives be destroyed by debts they could never repay.  Idiots.  If they hadn’t thought the government would underwrite the loans …”
― Christopher G. Nuttall, The Firelighters

“You got scum everywhere, but you don’t know anybody till you’ve walked in their shoes. And a hungry belly or a sick kid or losing the roof over your head, or being the wrong color and having to live your life with that unfairly hanging over your head every damn day, can make bad things happen to good people, Mick. It doesn’t mean the law won’t be enforced. It just means they’re human beings who you know very little about. You ever lose that bit of truth, go do something else for a living.”
― David Baldacci, Simply Lies

“He couldn’t help thinking of cities he’d visited, back on Earth, where fantastic levels of wealth contrasted sharply with the most grinding poverty.  Everywhere he looked, he saw the signs.  Belos might be a rich world, but the population was poor.”
― Christopher G. Nuttall, The Firelighters