Courage and endurance are useless if they are never tested.
― Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
Let me tell you what it is I admire about human beings. What I value most it is the one virtue they share with gods and animals, and which I will therefore no longer refer to as a virtue. I mean...courage. And you, Mrs. Green...possess that quality in abundance.
我來告訴妳,我所欽佩人類的甚麼特質。我最看重人類與諸神和動物所共有的美德...我也因此不再稱之為美德。我指的是...勇氣。而妳...十分具備這種特質。
- 街角的書店/The Bookshop (2017)