Murat

“Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.”
― August Strindberg, Miss Julie

“I started thinking about bivalves living down there in the dappled light, how they filter the algae from the water, how they close themselves up against the sea. It must be wonderful to be a bivalve, to be able to shut yourself away in your own mother-of-pearl-lined world, hanging on to the rock while the waves and tides churn outside. Ms Firestorm showed up to help me out. Cloistered in their shimmering watery depths, the loyal bivalves cling passionately together... Yes, we could learn a lot from bivalves.”
― Marina Lewycka, We Are All Made of Glue

“I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.”
― Maeve Binchy

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling