“And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.”
Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”
John le Carré – The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
“Intelligence work has one moral law – it is justified by results.”
The Brothers Grimm – Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Patricia Highsmith – The Talented Mr Ripley
“Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.”
Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse-Five
“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
Gabriel García Márquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice…”
Albert Camus – The Outsider
“I had only a little time left and I didn’t want to waste it on God.”
Jane Austen – Northanger Abbey
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
