Character Quote by Erik Larson

“The unconscious fabric of human destiny had done with her, unraveling all her grievances and reweaving them as joyous circumstance.”

— Michelle Franklin

“Her wish for a harmonious, organized world denied her the reckless possibilities of wrongdoing. Mayhem and destruction were too chaotic for her tastes, and…

— Ian McEwan

“She is but a woman and many unsound and dangerous principles are held by her.”

— John Cotton

“Actors change, but the course of the tragedy remains the same. A humanitarian who starts with declarations of love for mankind and ends with…

— ayn rand

“She would not be robbed of her ability to support herself, to do good work in the world, justly, compassionately.”

— Marge Piercy

“The moral crisis she'd just gone through made her feel indulgent toward the faults, the delinquencies of others. How thoroughly a human being can…

— Baroness Emma Orczy

“Yet her father had taught her that failing to act in the face of human suffering is inhuman.”

— Corban Addison

“What she was doing, what she had just done, was for her not about frivolity, it was about the essential, about being human, living…

— Mohsin Hamid

“She was young, a Stranger to the World, and consequently to the Dangers of it; and having no Body in Town, at that Time,…

— Eliza Haywood

“The irony of writing is that it's a solitary profession in which the lone writer tries to address universal human concerns.”

— Mark Rubinstein

“With so much at stake, and so many fortunes to be made, benevolent intentions can easily be drowned out. She”

— Tim Lebbon

“A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover’s world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian’s world revolves around the world.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana