Olivia

“Time is what matters. As time goes by, you and I will be carried inexorably into the mainstream of our period, even though we’re unaware of what it is. And later, when they say that young men in the early Taisho era thought, dressed, talked, in such and such a way, they’ll be talking about you and me. We’ll all be lumped together…. In a few decades, people will see you and the people you despise as one and the same, a single entity.”
― Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow

“Keep this in mind - it only works because what's between you, that's real, that's what matters. Billions of those connections between human beings. That's what you're fighting to keep alive.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Turn not your country’s hand against your country’s heart!”
― Anthony Everitt, Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor

“If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons