Beula Buza

“I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“How stark everything became, at the end, all the wishes for one's children distilled by the world's swift cruelty into the desperate hope that death would take them fast.”
― Justin Cronin, The Twelve

“Man always gets less than he demands from life; and so little do they demand, that the less than little they get cannot save them.”
― Jack London, The People of the Abyss

“They were prisoners, trapped by old ways of life, jailed within the imperial palace. He was no more free than she was. Yet only she could do what she would. If she said she would be Empress, then none could hold her back.”
― Pearl S. Buck, Imperial Woman: The Story of the Last Empress of China