Miranda

“In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“Belief gets in the way of learning.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“She loved Harry and so, when he disappeared, when he withdrew into vagueness and alcohol, she had despised him passionately.”
― William Browning Spencer, Zod Wallop