Leo Tolstoy

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

“I don’t want to be a man,” said Jace. “I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can’t confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead.” “Well,” said Luke, “you’re doing a fantastic job.”

Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

“We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”

Joseph Conrad, Chance

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

Leo Tolstoy

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”

C.S. Lewis

“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring