Erin

“To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

“I need air. I need a new brain. I need to jump out a window and catch a ride with a dragon to a world far from here.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“Let even an affectionate Goliath get himself tied to a small tender thing, dreading to hurt it by pulling, and dreading still more to snap the cord, and which of the two, pray, will be master?”
― George Eliot, Silas Marner

“You could not fence with an antagonist who met rapier thrust with blow of battle axe.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island