

“Youth is the time for dreams, boy...The trick is, when you get older, not to forget them.
—Captain John Winters”
― Banner in the Sky
—Captain John Winters”
― Banner in the Sky

“It is not true we have only one life to love, if we can read, we can live as many lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.”
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“I cannot choose but adhere to the word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I possibly, nor will I even make any recantation, since it is neither safe nor honest to act contrary to conscience! Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God! Amen.”
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“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray

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