Hellen Getting

“It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“It was understood, it was mere good manners, to proclaim that you were in his debt and that he had the right to call upon you at any time to redeem your debt by some small service. Now”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“We hang on to our values, even if they seem at times tarnished and worn; even if, as a nation and in our own lives, we have betrayed them more often that we care to remember. What else is there to guide us? Those values are our inheritance, what makes us who we are as a people. And although we recognize that they are subject to challenge, can be poked and prodded and debunked and turned inside out bu intellectuals and cultural critics, they have proven to be both surprisingly durable and surprisingly constant across classes, and races, and faiths, and generations. We can make claims on their behalf, so long as we understand that our values must be tested against fact and experience, so long as we recall that they demand deeds and not just words.”
― Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

“They came for me the next morning.”
― Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind