Isabel Benham

“Buying loyalty can be as effective as fear when one’s rival is poorer than oneself.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

“Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip,” Jonathan would say, other times, “is nothing more than your thought itself, in a form you can see. Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too….”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

“Whatever fortune—or misfortune—comes
Is mine, and only mine. In short, though I
Am no huge elm or oak-tree, yet I scorn
To be the parasitic ivy. I will climb
Slowly, uncertainly, and so perhaps
To no great height. But I will climb alone.”
― Edmond Rostand

“Hoi, hoi u embleer hrair! M'saion ule' hraka vair!”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down