“We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?”
William Golding book Lord of the Flies
Source: Lord of the Flies
In p. 5.
Valmiki To Narada
Ramayana
“We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?”
William Golding book Lord of the Flies
Source: Lord of the Flies
Lis Wiehl (1961) American legal scholar
Source: Waking Hours: Book 1 in East Salem Trilogy with Pete Nelson (Thomas Nelson), p. 16
Sarah Palin (1964) American politician
to conservative Alaskan columnist Paul Jenkins, in response to a comparison of emails showing her actions in conducting campaign business on City time to state Republican leader Randy Ruedrich conducting party business on state time, , quoted in [2008-09-14, Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes, Jo Becker, Peter S. Goodman and Michael Powell, The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.html]
2014
“I…regret…what I did. It was wrong. Very wrong. But regret is meaningless.”
N. K. Jemisin book The Broken Kingdoms
Source: The Broken Kingdoms (2011), Chapter 16 “From the Depths to the Heights” (watercolor) (p. 283)
“She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.”
Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale
Source: The Thirteenth Tale
“What good did it do to light the world on fire if she had to watch the glow alone?”
Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer
Source: Firefly Lane