Miriam Dix

“Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“She is a being not of this world,” my great-aunt says quietly. “She tried to live like an ordinary woman, but some women cannot live an ordinary life. She tried to walk in the common ways, but some women cannot put their feet to that path. This is a man’s world, Jacquetta, and some women cannot march to the beat of a man’s drum.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Lady of the Rivers

“You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.”
― John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

“Lift every voice and sing.”
― James Weldon Johnson