Makayla MacGregor

“Within ourselves our evil will is momentous, and sooner or later it works its way outside us—it may be in the vitiation that breeds evil acts, but also it may be in the self-abhorrence that stings us into better striving.”
― George Eliot, Daniel Deronda

“I don't want fear so strong that I am incapacitated. But there is fear that comes from being attentive enough that you realize there is life greater than you, life that was here before you and will be after.”
― Paul Bogard, The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light by Paul Bogard

“Don't you think he may be pursuing an ideal that is hidden in a cloud of unknowing — like an astronomer looking for a star that only a mathematical calculation tells him exists?”
― William Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge

“But, my dear Mrs. Casaubon,' said Mr. Farebrother, smiling gently at her ardour, 'character is not cut in marble — it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.'
'Then it may be rescued and healed,' said Dorothea.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch