Lara Croft

“True, I played, fought and studied with other children, but always I stood apart within. … A cosmic loneliness was my shadow.”
― Valerie Boyd, Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston

“It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”
― Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes

“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“As a quick aside, let me observe that in moments of high emotion....if the next thing you're going to say makes you feel better, then it's probably the wrong thing to say. This is one of the finer maxims that I've discovered in life. And you can have it, since it's been of no use to me.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility