Otha Schwarten

“What do I really want? he thinks. This is, of course, an extremely good question. It was just such a pity that, life being as it tended to be, it so rarely came as part of a matched pair, with an extremely good answer.”
― Iain Banks, The Steep Approach to Garbadale

“(…) they must have had perseverance as well as hatred.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gillman, The Yellow Wallpaper: The classic 1892 *psychological book"

“Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers.
-Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift”
― Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure

“But all the time-no matter what she was doing-there was music.”
― Carson McCullers