Shelley

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.”
― Amos Bronson Alcott, Concord Days

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville