Merlene Brodmerkel

“The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason

“It is said the sesta is one of the only gifts the Europeans brought to South America, but I imagine the Brazilians could have figured out how to sleep in the afternoon without having to endure centuries of murder and enslavement.”
― Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

“The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done.”
― Christopher Paolini, Brisingr

“SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, The Tough Guide to Fantasyland