Rec. #881: Quote from a Fictional Character #105

"I see everyone's point of view, which is very confusing. Seeing everyone's point of view is like mixing your drinks."

--- Annie, Doctors of Philosophy,

Muriel Spark, 1962

(See List #58)

Rec. #874: Quote from a Fictional Character #104

"Burglary or pick-pocketing, that needs an apprenticeship. Not so murder -- we're all of us up to that."

--- Mr. Inspector, Our Mutual Friend,

Charles Dickens, 1864

(Rec. #88)

(See also QfFC #21 and List #13)

Rec. #835: Quote from a Fictional Character #103

"Loving someone means muting their flaws for two to five years."

--- Andrés,

Los Espookys, 2019

Rec. #700: Revisiting Quote for These Times #2

[Originally posted January 22, 2017.]

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read."

--- James Baldwin
(See also Rec. #23)

Rec. #699: Revisiting Quote for These Times #8

[Originally posted April 14, 2017.]

"If it please God,

let less happen."

--- "Blandeur," Kay Ryan,

The Best of It, 2000

(Rec. #50)
(See also Rec. #498)

Rec. #694: Quote for These Times #17

"He was one of the unexpected things that happen in politics, and he happened with great thoroughness."

--- from "Hermann the Irascible: A Story of the Great Weep,"

The Chronicles of Clovis,
Saki, 1911

(See also: Rec. #172)

Rec. #679: Revisiting Quote from a Fictional Character #9

[Originally posted November 4, 2013.]

"I have your knife, Mr. Roat."

--- Susy Hendrix,

Wait Until Dark, 1967

(Rec. #26)

Rec. #678: Revisiting Quote from a Fictional Character #26

[Originally posted March 31, 2014.]

"All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people."

--- Alexander Bullock,

 My Man Godfrey, 1936

(See also List #42: In Praise of the American Screwball Comedy)

Rec. #676: Opening Lines -- Orion You Came and You Took All My Marbles

"It was Binelli's brainchild and only he knew all the specifics. Many many lists were involved. They were drawn up, copied, distributed, et cetera, with the terse minimum of words regarding the next set of Assignments and travel arrangements. We waited for them like someone might wait for something else. Christmas say, or aurora borealis. Dawn."

--- Finley,

Orion You Came and You Took All My Marbles, Kira Henehan, 2010

 (Rec. #195)

(Quote from a Fictional Character #75)

(List #51) 

Rec. #672: Revisiting Quote from a Fictional Character #32

[Originally posted May 12, 2014.]

"In 10 days, I'm going to set out to find the shark that ate my friend and destroy it. Anyone who wants to tag along is more than welcome."

--- Steve Zissou,

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, 2004

Rec. #671: Revisiting Quote from a Fictional Character #93

[Originally posted November 12, 2016.]

"That's what's so tough --- just having to put up with it. It's a bloody awful shame, I know. But you'll feel a bit better by and by, I promise. Yes, you really will. There'll be tea, and sand castles, and your birthday, and Christmas. It's just as bad as can be now, I know; that's why things have got to get a bit better."

--- Lucy Culpepper,

The Embroidered Sunset, Joan Aiken, 1970

Rec. #430: Revisiting Quote from a Fictional Character #39

[Felt highly relevant again.]

[QfFC #39 was originally posted July 14, 2014]

"I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted."

--- Camilla Haven,

My Brother Michael, Mary Stewart, 1959
(Rec. #387)

Also by Mary Stewart: The Ivy Tree (Rec. #201)

Rec. #408: Revisiting Quote for These Times #6

[Seemed appropriate to re-up this one.]

[QfTT #6 was originally posted March 2, 2017]

"Now, he told me, I could see what humanity was worth. It could form the conception of justice, but could not trust its flesh to provide judges. Whatever it started was likely to end in old men raving."

--- The Fountain Overflows,

Rebecca West, 1956

It just remains SO relevant. 

Connection to previous Wreckage: The Fountain Overflows was Rec. #224. See also Quote for These Times #14.

Rec. #660: Revisiting Quote from a Fictional Character #21

[Originally posted February 24, 2014.]

"So ... wishing you well in the way you go, we now conclude with the observation that perhaps you'll go it."

--- Nicodemus (Noddy) Boffin,

Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens, 1865

(Rec. #88)

Rec. #659: Revisiting Quote from a Fictional Character #25

"That is rather dangerously nice of you."

--- Inspector Roderick Alleyn,

Artists in Crime, Ngaio Marsh, 1938

(see also List #27)

Rec. #657: Quote for These Times #16

"It is not true that life is one damn thing after another --- it's one damn thing over and over."

--- Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1930

(see also Rec. #264)

Rec. #653: Revisiting Quote from a Fictional Character #36

[Originally posted June 23, 2014.]

"I used to think you were a swell guy. Well, to be honest, I thought you were an imbecile. But then I figured out you WERE a swell guy... A little slow, maybe, but a swell guy. Well, maybe you're not so slow, but you're not so swell either."

--- Amy Archer,

The Hudsucker Proxy, 1994

(Rec. #106)

Rec. #652: Revisiting Quote from a Fictional Character #51

[Originally posted October 20, 2014.]

"Jane wondered whether a woman would do it better, and came to the conclusion that she would probably do it far more quickly and efficiently, but would also wreck herself in the process, and this Mr. Pattern was quite obviously, and perhaps rightly, determined not to do."

--- Jane Gresham,

Miss Bunting, Angela Thirkell, 1945

Also:

Cheerfulness Breaks In (Rec. #240)

Summer Half (Rec. #40)

Quote from a Fictional Character #12

Quote from a Fictional Character #31

Quote from a Fictional Character #43

Rec. #647: Quote from a Fictional Character #102

"At last, after everything that's happened, it looks as if a future of some kind for the BBC is finally underway, and perhaps, for the moment, that's all that matters. Perhaps it's enough that the night is still young."

--- Narrator (David Tennant),

from the final scene of season/series 3 of W1A, 2017

(Rec. #601)

[Also, from slightly earlier in the episode: "Can I just say, guys, is it just me or have we basically just saved the BBC?" --- David Wilke (guy on the far right in the image above)]

Rec. #646: Revisiting Quote from a Fictional Character #96

[Originally posted November 24, 2014.]

"Your sister's not a cold-blooded murderer. She's never been a planner."

--- Karen Tyler,
Wonderfalls, 2004
(Rec. #2)

Also:

List #8: Smart, Non-Blockbuster Crowd Pleasers

List #24: A List of Lists So Far

List #29: So You Love the Cast of Hannibal, but Wish Watching the Show Itself Weren't So Psychologically Damaging 

Quote from a Fictional Character #14