Amor Towles
Chapter Three: The Quick Brown Fox
Which is just to say, be careful when choosing what you’re proud of — because the world has every intention of using it against you.
The Great Debaters (2007)
"What was this Negro's crime that he should be hung, without trial, in a dark forest filled with fog? Was he a thief? Was he a killer? Or just a Negro? Was he a sharecropper? A preacher? Were his children waiting up for him? And who are we to just lie there and do nothing? No matter what he did, the mob was the criminal. But the law did nothing, just left us wondering why. My opponent says nothing that erodes the rule of law can be moral. But there is not rule of law in the Jim Crow South, not when Negroes are denied housing, turned away from schools, hospitals and not when we are lynched. Saint Augustine said, "An unjust law is no law at all," which means I have a right, even a duty, to resist with violence or civil disobedience. You should pray I choose the latter."
Atonement (2007)
”Had I been allowed to visit you, had they let me, every day, I would have been there every day.”
”Yes, but… If all we have rests on a few moments in a library three and a half years ago then I am not sure, I don't know if...”
“Robbie, look at me. Look at me. Come back. Come back to me.”