Audry Spieler

“In winter I get up at night,
and dress by yellow candlelight,
In summer, quite the other day,
I have to go to bed by day”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses

“Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem.”
― Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

“When a newly acquired State has been accustomed, as I have said, to live under its own laws and in freedom, there are three methods whereby it may be held. The first is to destroy it; the second, to go and reside there in person; the third, to suffer it to live on under its own laws, subjecting it to a tribute, and entrusting its government to a few of the inhabitants who will keep the rest your friends. Such a Government, since it is the creature of the new Prince, will see that it cannot stand without his protection and support, and must therefore do all it can to maintain him; and a city accustomed to live in freedom, if it is to be preserved at all, is more easily controlled through its own citizens than in any other way.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“The easiest way to steal something, is for it to be given willingly.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless