Raina Brislan

“She was a woman who let life happen to her without troubling her mind about things more than was necessary.”
― Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River

“To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.' Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically. As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Accepting his form of saving was to strip me of who I was and fit a mold of who he wanted me to be.”
― M.R. Noble, Dark Eyes: White Lies

“The Rooster Coop was doing its work. Servants have to keep other servants from becoming innovators, experimenters, or entrepreneurs.
Yes, that’s the sad truth.
The coop is guarded from the inside.”
― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger