Alan

“I’m not a good person, Clover. You believe I am because I’m clever and charming, but neither of those things are virtues. And you’ve never tried to cross me in anything I want to do.”
― H.G. Parry, The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door

“He paused, frustrated. “I don’t know what it was about. Just that sometimes I’m sick of pretending everything’s fine.” That struck me with the physical force of an epiphany, like learning the term for a concept in magical studies that had been vague and nebulous and now suddenly made sense. Because we were all pretending, weren’t we?”
― H.G. Parry, The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door

“I know we were all angry and bitter, but we were friends. We should have tried to make amends. Instead we all went our separate ways, we barely looked at one another after we came back to Camford, like first-years after a regrettable one-night stand.”
― H.G. Parry, The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door

“That was just what I told myself, to give myself the excuse. I wanted to see for myself if it worked. I wanted to be the one who made it work.” I fumbled for words in the dark, and found only his own. “I was sick of pretending everything was fine since the war too. I didn’t just want to fix you. I wanted to fix everything.”
― H.G. Parry, The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door