Michael

“Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The House of Silk

“How much more courage it took to be kind than to be cruel.”
― Louise Penny, How the Light Gets In

“Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.”
― Milan Kundera

“It was always like this. When you spoke the truth, they hated you. The more you talked about love, the more they hated you.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love