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“Might I," quavered Mary, "might I have a bit of earth?”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“You see, I don't belive that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, that has been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians.”
― Monty Python

“Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution.”
― Deepak Chopra

“I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.”
― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

“If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story. Each of us is a singular narrative, which is constructed, continually, unconsciously, by, through, and in us--through our perceptions, our feelings, our thoughts, our actions; and, not least, our discourse, our spoken narrations. Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives--we are each of us unique.”
― Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?”
― Virginia Woolf

“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

“I am not one and simple, but complex and many.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.”
― Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf

“One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“Would there be trees if we didn't see them?”
― Virginia Woolf, The Years