To Kill a Mockingbird
Kids are astute and pick up more than we’ll ever know. And we’ll never know exactly when they are watching and what they will absorb.
“There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.”
“… but before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”
Slaughterhouse Five
“Billy, with all his memories of the future, knew that the city would be smashed to smithereens and then burned – in about 30 more days. He knew, too, that most of the people watching him would soon be dead.”
The Death of Ivan Ilych
If the focus of your life is yourself, the result of your dying will be the indifference of others.